{
 "dataset": "galen",
 "title": "What Galen publishes, and what it does not",
 "description": "An independent reference journal on veterinary medicines in English. It explains how veterinary products are labelled, measured, stored and classified, and stops where clinical judgement starts.",
 "generated": "2026-09-17",
 "publisher": {
  "name": "Galen",
  "url": "https://galen.vet/",
  "documentation": "https://galen.vet/api/",
  "contact": "hello@galen.vet",
  "byline": {
   "name": "Galen editorial",
   "url": "https://galen.vet/about/",
   "type": "Organization",
   "note": "An organisation byline, deliberately, and not a named expert. Nobody on this masthead is a practising clinician; a named authority who does not exist would be a lie in machine-readable form. Where a veterinarian reviews a page, the name, qualification and date are attached to that page rather than to the site."
  }
 },
 "licence": {
  "id": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Galen (https://galen.vet)",
  "covers": "The compilation: the article index, the reference tables as structured here, the source registry and every derived field. Use it commercially, modify it, redistribute it; credit Galen with a link. The underlying standards, guidelines and reference works belong to the bodies that publish them and are cited row by row."
 },
 "scope_limits": {
  "no_dosing": "Galen publishes no doses, dose rates, dose intervals or dose calculations, for any species or any product. The figure that applies is on the approved label of the product in front of you, interpreted by the veterinarian who has examined the animal.",
  "no_diagnosis": "Nothing here diagnoses. A sign is not a disease and a list of signs is not a differential. What is published is what a measurement or a label phrase MEANS, so that a conversation with a veterinarian starts from the right place.",
  "no_products": "No product is named and none is recommended. Which product is appropriate is a clinical decision and, in most jurisdictions, a prescribing one.",
  "no_clearance": "An absent row is never a statement of safety. These tables list what they list; the space around them is unexamined, not cleared.",
  "emergency": "If an animal has swallowed something, is collapsed, is struggling to breathe, is bloated and retching unproductively, or is deteriorating after a bite or sting, the answer is a veterinarian or an animal poison centre immediately — not a reference page and not an agent.",
  "jurisdiction": "Veterinary medicines law is national. Where a figure or a rule belongs to one regime it is named as such; where a page describes a pattern common to several, it says so. Nothing here should be read as the law of a country it does not name."
 },
 "corrections": {
  "how": "Email hello@galen.vet with the URL and the source that contradicts it.",
  "policy": "A correction to a figure is made in the source registry or the reference data and reaches every surface — page, markdown twin, JSON and MCP — on the next build, because there is only one copy of it."
 },
 "data": {
  "what_it_is": "A reference publication. It sells nothing, lists no supplier, takes no advertising and has no account, no form and no catalogue.",
  "counts": {
   "articles_live": 32,
   "articles_queued": 0,
   "topics": 17,
   "primary_sources": 38,
   "reference_tables": 9,
   "reference_rows": 55,
   "locales": 1
  },
  "topics": [
   "Active substances",
   "Animal health",
   "Antimicrobials",
   "Behaviour",
   "Emergencies",
   "Food and toxins",
   "Food safety",
   "Home care",
   "Livestock",
   "Long-term conditions",
   "Pet safety",
   "Prevention",
   "Reading a label",
   "Shelf life",
   "Storage",
   "Tests and reports",
   "Vital signs"
  ],
  "covered": [
   {
    "subject": "How a veterinary label states strength",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/veterinary-drug-units-iu-mg-ml-percent/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "What each storage phrase requires, and the cold chain",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/storing-veterinary-medicines-cold-chain/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "What changes when a container is opened or reconstituted",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/in-use-shelf-life-after-opening/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "What governs a withdrawal period, and how residue failures happen",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/withdrawal-periods-meat-milk-eggs/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Generics, active substances and the INN",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/veterinary-generics-active-substance/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Antimicrobial resistance in livestock production",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/antimicrobial-resistance-livestock/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Reference ranges for temperature, pulse and respiration",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/normal-temperature-pulse-respiration-animals/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Heat load and the temperature-humidity index",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/heat-stress-livestock-poultry/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Human medicines and household hazards around pets",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/journal/human-medicines-and-pets/"
   },
   {
    "subject": "Companion-animal conditions explained without diagnosing them",
    "page": "https://galen.vet/"
   }
  ],
  "not_covered": [
   {
    "subject": "Doses, dose rates, dose intervals and dose calculators",
    "instead": "The approved label, and the veterinarian who has examined the animal."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Diagnosis, differentials and symptom checkers",
    "instead": "A veterinary consultation. The site explains what a sign means, not what it is."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Product names, brands, recommendations and comparisons",
    "instead": "The national medicines register for the country concerned."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Numeric withdrawal periods and maximum residue limits",
    "instead": "Codex Alimentarius, and the product label for the figure that applies."
   },
   {
    "subject": "A toxic-plant or toxic-substance database",
    "instead": "ASPCA Animal Poison Control and Pet Poison Helpline."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Prices, suppliers, a marketplace or a catalogue",
    "instead": "Nothing here — Galen is not a commercial intermediary."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Any content in a language other than English",
    "instead": "There is no translated edition and no hreflang cluster; do not construct locale URLs."
   },
   {
    "subject": "Emergency or out-of-hours advice",
    "instead": "A veterinarian or an animal poison centre, immediately."
   }
  ],
  "editorial_policy": {
   "byline": {
    "name": "Galen editorial",
    "url": "https://galen.vet/about/",
    "type": "Organization",
    "note": "An organisation byline, deliberately, and not a named expert. Nobody on this masthead is a practising clinician; a named authority who does not exist would be a lie in machine-readable form. Where a veterinarian reviews a page, the name, qualification and date are attached to that page rather than to the site."
   },
   "sourcing": "A number and its source in the same sentence. Where a figure is a national rule and not a universal one, the page says which country's. Citations are keys into a single registry rather than raw URLs in prose.",
   "figures": "Every chart is drawn from numbers the page itself states. Nothing shaped like a measurement is generated for decoration, and a build gate enforces the asset count, the captions and the alt text.",
   "publication_queue": "Articles are released on their own publication date rather than all at once. Dates are honest in both directions: nothing is backdated to look established and nothing is re-dated to look fresh.",
   "corrections": "Email hello@galen.vet with the URL and the source that contradicts it."
  },
  "data_handling": {
   "accounts": false,
   "forms": false,
   "cookies_set_by_the_site": false,
   "payment": false,
   "user_content": false,
   "third_parties": [
    {
     "name": "Microsoft Clarity",
     "purpose": "Aggregate page analytics",
     "note": "Sets its own cookies. It is the only third-party script on the site."
    },
    {
     "name": "Cloudflare",
     "purpose": "CDN and DNS in front of the origin"
    }
   ],
   "note": "The machine surface is entirely static files plus one read-only computation service. No request to it is logged into anything published, and there is no user data for an access token to protect — which is why /auth.md declares no authentication at all."
  },
  "machine_surface": {
   "api": "https://galen.vet/api/v1/index.json",
   "openapi": "https://galen.vet/api/v1/openapi.json",
   "documentation": "https://galen.vet/api/",
   "mcp": "https://galen.vet/mcp",
   "a2a": "https://galen.vet/a2a",
   "markdown_twins": "Append index.md to any page URL, or send Accept: text/markdown.",
   "llms_txt": "https://galen.vet/llms.txt",
   "llms_full_txt": "https://galen.vet/llms-full.txt",
   "authentication": "none",
   "rate_limit": "none",
   "cost": "none"
  },
  "not_published": [
   {
    "what": "Dose tables, dose rates and dose calculators",
    "why": "Out of scope by editorial policy, not by omission. A dose depends on the individual animal, the product and the indication; a dose quoted from a general reference is how an overdose happens.",
    "instead": "The approved label of the product, and the veterinarian who has examined the animal."
   },
   {
    "what": "Numeric withdrawal periods and maximum residue limits",
    "why": "They are product-, species- and route-specific and they change. Publishing a snapshot of them would produce a number that is authoritative-looking, quotable and wrong within a year — the shape of error this site is built to avoid.",
    "instead": "Codex Alimentarius for MRLs, and the national register or the product label for the withdrawal period that applies. Both are keyed in /api/v1/sources.json."
   },
   {
    "what": "A product register, a price list or a supplier directory",
    "why": "Galen is a reference publication, not a marketplace. It sells nothing and lists nobody.",
    "instead": "The national medicines register for the country concerned."
   },
   {
    "what": "A full toxic-plant or toxic-substance database",
    "why": "ASPCA and the poison centres maintain these, keep them current and answer the telephone. Republishing a stale copy of a safety list is worse than not having one.",
    "instead": "ASPCA Animal Poison Control and Pet Poison Helpline, both keyed in /api/v1/sources.json."
   },
   {
    "what": "Analytics, reader data or any personal data of any kind",
    "why": "None is collected into anything publishable. There is no account, no form and no log export.",
    "instead": null
   }
  ]
 }
}