Glossary
- ACA
-
Accredited Certification Agency
- AGA
-
American Grassfed Association
- alternative
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when a non-mainstream approach is used in place of conventional medicine
- AMDUCA
-
Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act of 1994
- APHIS
-
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- ATTRA
-
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
- AVMA
-
American Veterinary Medicine Association
- CAVM
-
Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine
- CE
-
continuing education
- CFSPH
-
Center for Food Security and Public Health
- complementary
-
when a non-mainstream approach is used together with conventional medicine
- CRP
-
Conservation Reserve Program
- DMI
-
Dry Matter Intake
- EPA
-
Environmental Protection Agency
- EU
-
European Union
- FAD
-
Foreign Animal Disease
- FAMACHA
-
a system for estimating the level of barber's pole worm among small ruminants
- FDA
-
Food and Drug Administration
- G.I.
-
Gastrointestinal
- GAP
-
Global Animal Partnership
- GMO
-
Genetically Modified Organism
- GMOs
- integrative
-
when conventional and complementary approaches are used together to care for the whole individual in a coordinated way
- IOIA
-
International Organic Inspectors Association
- NCAT
-
National Center for Appropriate Technology
- NCCIH
-
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
- NIH
-
National Institute of Health
- NOP
-
United State Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program
- NOSB
-
National Organic Standards Board
- O/A
-
Organic and/or Alternative
- OMRI
-
Organic Materials Review Institute
- Organic Livestock
-
Certified by the USDA to carry the organic label
- OSP
-
Organic System Plan
- plain community
-
Amish and conservative Mennonites
- PMO
-
Pasteurized Milk Order
- USDA
-
United States Department of Agriculture
- VCPR
-
Veterinarian-Client-Patient Relationship
