TEXAS VET LAB, INC.

 

BRIEF HISTORY AND MISSION STATEMENT

 

 

Texas Vet Lab, Inc was established by Dr. W.H. (Bill) and Patsy Wohler with the express purpose of developing innovative and improved biologics for the cattle industry, with special emphasis on products for stocker/feeder calves . Texas Vet Lab was incorporated and licensed in the State of Texas in 1977 and received licensure by the USDA in 1981.

 

Texas Vet Lab’s first accomplishment was the development of Poly-Bac® B.  Poly-Bac® B has matured over the years and is vastly improved over the original product; which was no slouch in it’s day, being the first Mannheimia Haemolytica containing biologic to be proven effective by modern test methods (Adviento et al, CJVR, 1987).

 

Poly-Bac® B now comes in multiple formulas to meet the needs of the Stocker and Feeder Calf Industry  Details are shown on the following pages.

 

Texas Vet Lab was the first and, so far as we know, the only company to incorporate Mannheimia Haemolytica Type A6 along with the more prevalent Type A1 in a full licensed product. This is our Super Poly-Bac® B line of products.  According to diagnostic surveys, Mannheimia Haemolytica Type A6 has been reported to have been isolated in up to 30% of calves suffering pneumonia caused by M. haemolytica.

 

Texas Vet Lab was also the first company to recognize the importance of Mycoplasma bovis infection in stocker/feeder cattle and the first to gain a full unconditional license for a Mycoplasma bovis product, Myco-Bac® B.

 

Most recently, Texas Vet Lab has licensed a new line of bovine virus vaccines, both live and killed, tailored to meet the needs of the stocker operator.

 

Texas Vet Lab was one of the first and remains to be one of the few biologics manufacturers to incorporate into our killed cattle vaccines a true water-in-oil emulsion adjuvant (the standard for immuno-enhancing adjuvant systems).

 

Texas Vet Lab pledges to continue to strive to produce innovative and improved biologics for the cattle industry.

 

 

 Jim Bob Harris, MS                                                   Dale Weise, MS

General Manager                                                         Dir. Science & Technology

 

Edward Terry, MBA                                                  Patsy Wohler

Operations Manager                                                    President