Regulations last checked for updates: May 01, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 520.376 - Cephalexin.

(a) Specifications. Each chewable tablet contains 75, 150, 300, or 600 milligrams (mg) cephalexin.

(b) Sponsor. See No. 051311 in § 510.600(c) of this chapter.

(c) Conditions of use—(1) Dogs—(i) Amount. Administer 22 mg per kilogram of body weight twice daily for 28 days.

(ii) Indications for use. For the treatment of secondary superficial bacterial pyoderma in dogs caused by susceptible strains of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.

(iii) Limitations. Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.

(2) [Reserved]

[77 FR 47512, Aug. 9, 2012]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 360b.
source: 40 FR 13838, Mar. 27, 1975, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 520.376