US PATENT SUBCLASS 424 / 439
.~ Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical

Current as of: June, 1999
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424 /   HD   DRUG, BIO-AFFECTING AND BODY TREATING COMPOSITIONS

400  DF  PREPARATIONS CHARACTERIZED BY SPECIAL PHYSICAL FORM {12}
439.~ Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical {3}
440  DF  .~.~> Candy, candy coated or chewing gum
441  DF  .~.~> Chewable tablet or wafer
442  DF  .~.~> Animal food

DEFINITION

Classification: 424/439

Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical:

(under subclass 400) Subject matter in which the special physical form is a coated or impregnated food or edible which serves as a means of administering a pharmaceutical.

(1) Note. For Disposition of Foods, see the Search Class note below.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

426, Foods or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, provides for compositions intended to nourish an animal by natural oral ingestion, which an contain an additive necessary to maintain the normal metabolism of the animal; e.g., vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. Class 424 provides for compositions intended to nourish an animal when such compositions are designed to be administered to the animal by routes other than the oral cavity; e.g., by rectal or parenteral injection, or via a tube through the alimentary tract or stomach wall. However, a food or beverage containing a biocide as a preservative therefore will be classified as original in Class 426. Class 424 also provides for methods of preserving Class 426 products when said methods are no more than the mere use of biocides. Class 424 further provides for food or beverage compositions containing an animal growth regulator or other anabolic agents. For purposes of classification an animal growth regulator or anabolic agent is defined to include the following illustrative causative effects: (a) increase feed efficiency or weight gain; (b) enhance color or egg yolks, combs, skin or legs of chickens; (c) enhance the hatchability of eggs; (d) vary the fat-protein ratio or texture of flesh; (e) chemically caponize an animal, etc.