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ECOG Scale

(Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group)  A standard scale of performance used by doctors and researchers to assess how a patient's disease is progressing, and how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient.  It is used to determine appropriate treatment and prognosis.

Electronic Animal Identification Products

Implantable transponders which contain unique information for use in animal identification; A reader compatible with the transponder is used to make the final identification. These transponders are implanted into inedible portions of the animal (e.g., ear) and if the implant is rendered for animal feed, the Center is regulating the transponder as a food additive.

Email Address

Identifies a location to which electronic mail (e-mail) messages can be delivered.

Ethnicity

The US Census Bureau defines ethnicity or origin as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person 's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States.

Euthanized

Ending the life of an animal suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.

Event

Construed as including all adverse events, product problems/complaints, and product-use errors.

Exception Alert

Unusual or exceptional system processing conditions (e.g., errors during the safety-report transmittal process, system inactivity during otherwise peak periods

Extra-Label Use

Refers to the actual or intended use of an approved new animal drug in a manner that is not in accordance with the approved label directions.



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