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# Midwest Vet Supply Forfeits $10 Million for Misbranding
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/midwest-vet-supply-forfeits-10-million-for-misbranding/
- Published: 2023-03-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T18:22:58.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5154097

Midwest Veterinary Supply, based in Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded veterinary drugs into interstate commerce and will pay more than $10 million in criminal fines and forfeiture. A Department of Justice [news release](https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/midwest-veterinary-supply-pleads-guilty-misbranding-veterinary-drugs?ref=fdaweb.com) says the company supplies prescription drugs for animals to veterinarians, farms, feedlots, and other businesses.

The department says that from 2011 to 2021 Midwest shipped prescription drugs from their non-pharmacy locations throughout the U.S. to end users that were not authorized to receive prescription drugs. Shipments from non-pharmacy locations to end-users and shipments to non-authorized locations are deemed misbranded, the statement says. It says the company shipped at least $10,150,014 worth of misbranded drugs to end users between 2011 and 2021.

“The law violated is designed, in part, to ensure that prescription drugs are kept within a controlled chain of distribution to prevent diversion and inappropriate use,” the department says.

Under a plea agreement, Midwest will forfeit $10,150,014 and serve between one and three years of probation. It will also pay $1 million to the Virginia Department of Health Professions and a $500,000 fine. The case was investigated by the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations and the Virginia State Police, with the assistance of the Virginia Department of Health Professions.