Pet Drug Reports

December 2004adverse 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 1,443 adverse event reports for animal drugs in December 2004. It received 1,063 reports in December 2003. The average of the 12 months before December 2004 is 1,674 reports for each month.

Of the 1,443 reports, 66.2% are about dogs, 8.5% are about cats and 2.4% 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, Jun 2003 to Jun 2005. The column with the outline is December 2004.

Reports by species

  • Dog66.2%955
  • Cat8.5%123
  • Horse2.4%35
  • Other species, or species not given22.9%330

Drug pages with reports received in December 2004

The table has every drug page with 10 or more reports that FDA received in December 2004, in order of name. No count decides which drug is in the table. The table has 23 drug pages.

Drug pages with 10 or more reports received in December 2004, in order of name
Active ingredientsReports received in December 2004
Amoxicillin19
Butorphanol Tartrate10
Carprofen116
Clomipramine Hydrochloride19
Clorsulon + Ivermectin10
Cyclosporine84
Deracoxib130
Desoxycorticosterone Pivalate12
Enrofloxacin13
Ivermectin39
Ivermectin + Pyrantel Pamoate83
Ketamine Hydrochloride16
Lufenuron + Milbemycin Oxime56
Medetomidine18
Melarsomine Dihydrochloride55
Meloxicam51
Milbemycin Oxime89
Monensin38
Moxidectin95
Nitenpyram19
Selamectin174
Selegiline Hydrochloride19
Tilmicosin Phosphate25

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 1,443 reports of the month.

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

  1. Vomiting13.8%199 reports
  2. Depression[dull, quiet or withdrawn]12.2%176 reports
  3. Anorexia[not eating]11.8%170 reports
  4. Death9.6%138 reports
  5. Ineffective, heartworm larvae[legacy FDA term: the product did not have the expected effect (heartworm larvae)]9.2%133 reports
  6. Diarrhoea[diarrhea]7%101 reports
  7. Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT)[a liver enzyme above the normal range]6.7%96 reports
  8. Accidental exposure[exposure that was not intended]5.8%83 reports
  9. Elevated serum alkaline phosphatase (SAP)[a liver and bone enzyme above the normal range]5.6%81 reports
  10. Death by euthanasia[the animal was euthanized]5.2%75 reports
  11. Elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN)[a kidney value above the normal range]4.9%71 reports
  12. Convulsion[seizure]4%58 reports
  13. Pruritus[itching]3.8%55 reports
  14. Ataxia[unsteady, uncoordinated movement]3.7%54 reports
Show the next 1 signs
  1. Elevated creatinine[a kidney value above the normal range]3.6%52 reports

Ingredients, all combinations

The list has every active ingredient with 10 or more reports received in December 2004, in order of name. It has 25 ingredients.

Show the 25 ingredients

The same month in other years

Cite this page

Pet Drug Reports. December 2004: adverse event reports for animal drugs. https://petdrugreports.com/month/2004-12/ 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 December 2004 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 199 reports of the 1,443 reports of December 2004 (13.8%).