Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Our vet informed us that as of 1 Jan 2017, you will no longer be able to buy veterinary supplies at retail stores. This includes a broad spectrum of "medicines" including animal pesticides, antibiotics, vaccines, ... It turns out that the FDA's main thing is that they want to have usage records of all medications applied, and what animals they were applied to.
The existing code in Medical Log goes a long way towards resolving the recording requirements. But what is also needed is the name/code of the medicine and the dose.
Would it be possible to create a Medicine Taxonomy for the various medicine types, and have a quantity and units field.
Although this won't give us "per animal" quantities for each log entry, we can do something like 5cc's/hundred-weight (and the weight of the animal will be in another log/observation record).
This will go a long way toward satisfying the FDA's need for reporting medicine use on a farm.
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Comment #2
BruceDawson CreditAttribution: BruceDawson commentedComment #3
m.stenta@BruceDawson: yes that all makes sense. So the tasks would be:
* Add a new "Medicine" taxonomy
* Add a "Medicine" term reference field to the Medical log type for referencing a term in the taxonomy
* Add a quantity+units field to Medical log type.
Is that correct?
I will add this to the 1.0 roadmap.
Comment #4
m.stentaMoving this to the Farm Livestock module because that's what provides the Medical log type.
Comment #5
BruceDawson CreditAttribution: BruceDawson commentedYup. That sounds about right.
Seems to me that something similar would apply to veggies - application of herbicide/pesticide/fungicide or other "herbal medication".
Comment #6
m.stentaHmm yea - I wonder if it would make sense to generalize and create an "Input" taxonomy instead. It could be used by both Input and Medical logs.
Medical logs sort of sit in a weird in between place... they can be used to describe inputs, or they can be used to describe other general medical events. I suppose it is just up to the user to decide how they want to use it. But maybe we should outline some standard practices.
Comment #7
m.stentaI created a new todo in the Github repo for farmOS documentation so we can start to discuss writing up some recommendations for standard practices: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS.org/issues/19
Comment #8
m.stentaAll farmOS repositories have been merged into the farmOS distribution (see #2876992: Merge farmOS repositories into drupal.org/project/farm). I'm going through and moving all open issues from the various project issue queues to the central queue now...
Comment #9
m.stentaI think we can actually close this! In farmOS v2 we have a new "Materials" asset type, which could be used to track inventory of medicines/treatments, and these can be "applied" in a general way using inventory adjustment quantities on a medical log.