Pet Drug Reports

September 2002: adverse event reports that FDA received

Month in which FDA received the reports

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An API dataset query result cannot be used to estimate the risk associated with the product or compare one drug or device product with another. When looking at the results, be aware that there is no certainty that the reported drug or device caused the adverse event. This dataset should not be the sole source of information for clinical decision-making or other assumptions about the safety or effectiveness of a product. The adverse event may have been related to an underlying disease, other drugs used at the same time or other non-drug related sources.

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine publishes these words. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices, read on . The data have the reports that FDA received through .

FDA received 1,043 adverse event reports for animal drugs in September 2002. It received 1,150 reports in September 2001. The average of the 12 months before September 2002 is 1,143 reports for each month.

Of the 1,043 reports, 61.5% are about dogs, 12.5% are about cats and 1.6% are about horses. The other reports are about other species, or give no species. A report is not proof that a drug caused a sign.

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The months before and after

Reports for each month, Mar 2001 to Mar 2003. The column with the outline is September 2002.

Reports by species

  • Dog61.5%641
  • Cat12.5%130
  • Horse1.6%17
  • Other species, or species not given24.4%255

Drug pages with reports received in September 2002

The table has every drug page with 10 or more reports that FDA received in September 2002, in order of name. No count decides which drug is in the table. The table has 14 drug pages.

Drug pages with 10 or more reports received in September 2002, in order of name
Active ingredientsReports received in September 2002
(S) - methoprene20
Amoxicillin13
Carprofen146
Clomipramine Hydrochloride10
Enrofloxacin50
Etodolac18
Ivermectin21
Ivermectin + Pyrantel Pamoate24
Melarsomine Dihydrochloride27
Monensin13
Moxidectin149
Selamectin284
Tiletamine Hydrochloride + Zolazepam Hydrochloride20
Tilmicosin Phosphate18

The openFDA records give the value "MSK" for the brand name and for the manufacturer name of each drug. FDA says that MSK means "masked". So the site cannot count a report for a brand.

An API dataset query result cannot be used to estimate the risk associated with the product or compare one drug or device product with another.

Commonly used products may have a higher number of reported adverse events due to the higher total number of animals being given the product.

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices

Signs that the reports of the month list

A sign is a coded term from the report. The words in brackets are a plain gloss of the term. The percentage is the share of the 1,043 reports of the month.

The sign that is in the largest number of the reports comes first.

  1. Vomiting15.8%165 reports
  2. Depression[dull, quiet or withdrawn]12.8%133 reports
  3. Ineffective, heartworm larvae[legacy FDA term: the product did not have the expected effect (heartworm larvae)]10.5%110 reports
  4. Death10.4%108 reports
  5. Anorexia[not eating]9.5%99 reports
  6. Accidental exposure[exposure that was not intended]7.7%80 reports
  7. Diarrhoea[diarrhea]7.1%74 reports
  8. Unclassifiable adverse event[event that fits no dictionary term]5.6%58 reports
  9. Anaphylaxis[sudden severe allergic-type reaction]4.9%51 reports
  10. Ataxia[unsteady, uncoordinated movement]4.4%46 reports
  11. Convulsion[seizure]4.2%44 reports
  12. Pruritus[itching]4.2%44 reports
  13. Death by euthanasia[the animal was euthanized]3.8%40 reports
  14. Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT)[a liver enzyme above the normal range]3.7%39 reports
Show the next 1 signs
  1. Solution, Abnormal[a product quality report, not a sign in an animal]3.7%39 reports

Ingredients, all combinations

The list has every active ingredient with 10 or more reports received in September 2002, in order of name. It has 16 ingredients.

The same month in other years

Cite this page

Pet Drug Reports. September 2002: adverse event reports for animal drugs. https://petdrugreports.com/month/2002-09/ Source: FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event reports, export of . Reports received through .

Where the data come from

The counts come from the openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event files, export of 30 Oct 2026. The files have the reports that the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine received through 26 Jun 2026. The files mask brand and manufacturer names. The site counts a drug by the active ingredients that each record gives, and gives no count to a brand, an application or a company. Ingredient names and the lists of approved products follow the FDA Green Book of 2 Nov 2026. The month is the month in which FDA received the report, not the month of the event.

The site does not publish report text, lot numbers or details of a reporter. FDA's record is the authority. See how the site counts reports, the data sources and the corrections page.

Questions about this month

Can the count for September 2002 change?

Yes. FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to reach the public data. The newest months can get more reports in a later update.

Does the month show when the event occurred?

No. The month is the month in which FDA received the report. The event can be from an earlier month.

Which sign is in the largest number of the reports of the month?

"Vomiting" is in 165 reports of the 1,043 reports of September 2002 (15.8%).