Calcium

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This page reprints a manufacturer label. Everything below in quotation marks is copied from CAL-PHOS SUSPENSION, published by FDA and retrieved on 2026-09-16. Nothing has been added, reworded or left out of the sections shown. It is the manufacturer’s label, reproduced as published.

This page reprints the FDA label for CAL-PHOS SUSPENSION by Radix Laboratories, Inc, a calcium product labelled for dogs and cats. The sections below are copied from that label without change, with the set id and the date it was retrieved from DailyMed.

The label

Product: CAL-PHOS SUSPENSION. Manufacturer: Radix Laboratories, Inc. FDA Structured Product Label set id be118f12-9ced-4b07-8941-a3d1510b4cc0. Label effective 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2026-09-16 from the DailyMed animal label release, and readable on DailyMed.

Indications

For use as a supplemental source of calcium and phosphorus for cattle, swine, sheep, goats, dogs, and cats.

Dosage and Administration

Administer orally as a drench or by use of a stomach tube. Large animals: 150mL (5 fl. oz.) to 250mL (8 fl. oz.) twice daily for 3 days. Small animals: 2 to 5 mL per # of body weight twice daily for 3 days. Do not overdose. Keep away from children. FOR ANIMAL USE ONLY CAL-PHOS PRINCIPAL DISPLAY PANEL Principal Display Panel

Warnings

SHAKE WELL BEFORE USAGE. Administer with care to avoid aspiration.

Storage

Store at controlled room temperature between 59 o F to 86 o F (15 o C -30 o C).

FDA adverse event reports

The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine publishes the adverse event reports it receives through openFDA. The counts below are the reports naming calcium as an active ingredient for each species this label names, as returned on 2026-09-16, coded by the VeDDRA reaction term the reporter chose. Reactions are counted per report, so one report can appear under several terms.

These are counts, not rates. Reporting is voluntary, the number of animals treated is not known, and a widely used product accumulates reports for that reason alone. A report records that an event followed a dose; it does not establish that the product caused it. The counts say nothing about how one product compares with another.

Dogs: 247 reports

Reactions most often coded in dogs, 247 reports
VeDDRA reaction termReports
Vomiting56
Lethargy (see also Central nervous system depression in 'Neurological')35
Death by euthanasia30
Diarrhoea29
Not eating24
Death23
Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT)23
Seizure NOS23
Anorexia20
Elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN)20
Other abnormal test result NOS18
Hypoalbuminaemia16
Pain NOS16
Leucocytosis NOS14
Elevated creatinine13

Outcome as recorded by the reporter: Recovered/Normal 79; Ongoing 59; Outcome Unknown 50; Euthanized 29; Died 27; Recovered with Sequela 3.

Queries: reports, reactions, outcomes. Dataset: openFDA Animal and Veterinary Adverse Event Reports.

Cats: 140 reports

Reactions most often coded in cats, 140 reports
VeDDRA reaction termReports
Vomiting28
Anorexia21
Behavioural disorder NOS21
Death20
Lethargy (see also Central nervous system depression in 'Neurological')20
Other abnormal test result NOS20
Death by euthanasia17
Elevated creatinine17
Elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN)16
Weight loss16
Fever15
Hyperphosphataemia15
Dehydration14
Lack of efficacy - NOS13
Lethargy (see also Central nervous system depression in Neurological)13

Outcome as recorded by the reporter: Ongoing 34; Outcome Unknown 33; Recovered/Normal 30; Died 21; Euthanized 17; Recovered with Sequela 2.

Queries: reports, reactions, outcomes. Dataset: openFDA Animal and Veterinary Adverse Event Reports.

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