Editing Chlorpromazine (section)

==Veterinary use==
The veterinary use of chlorpromazine has generally been superseded by the use of [[acepromazine]].<ref name="Plumb2015">{{cite book| vauthors = Plumb DC |title=Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook|year=2015|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1118911921|edition=8th}}</ref>

Chlorpromazine may be used as an [[antiemetic]] in dogs and cats, or, less often, as a sedative before anesthesia.<ref name="VetPharmTherap9">{{cite book| vauthors = Posner LA, Burns P | veditors = Riviere JE, Papich MG, Adams RH |title=Veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics.|date=2009|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Ames, Iowa|isbn=9780813820613|pages=337–80|edition=9|chapter=Chapter 13: Sedative agents: tranquilizers, alpha-2 agonists, and related agents}}</ref> In horses, it often causes [[ataxia]] and [[lethargy]] and is therefore seldom used.<ref name="Plumb2015" /><ref name="VetPharmTherap9" />

It is commonly used to decrease nausea in animals that are too young for other common antiemetics.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} It is sometimes used as a [[preanesthetic]] and [[muscle relaxant]] in cattle, swine, sheep, and goats.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}}

The use of chlorpromazine in [[livestock| food-producing animal]]s is not permitted in the [[European Union]], as a [[maximum residue limit]] could not be determined following assessment by the [[European Medicines Agency]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Chlorpromazine: summary report|url=http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Maximum_Residue_Limits_-_Report/2009/11/WC500012075.pdf|website=European Medicines Agency|publisher=Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products|access-date=17 January 2017|date=June 1996|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118140703/http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Maximum_Residue_Limits_-_Report/2009/11/WC500012075.pdf|archive-date=18 January 2017}}</ref>