VetPharm was founded in April 2000 as a contract research organization to provide clinical trial management and other support services to pharmaceutical, nutrition, nutraceutical, and device companies developing new products for the veterinary market. These services range from simple, single-site palatability studies (“taste testing” of new products with proven effectiveness) to complex, multi-site clinical trials (tests to determine the efficacy of new, unproven products). Studies are conducted by VetPharm-affiliated private-practice or university-associated veterinarians. Each veterinarian is supervised and supported by an experienced specially-trained VetPharm field monitor who assists the study site staff with patient enrollment, data collection, test article accountability, and record verification. VetPharm headquarters’ staff reviews, evaluates, and consolidates all data, inspects all records, routes and records all correspondence, and administers all site payments. VetPharm provides a full range of clinical trial support services in both the United States and Europe, including protocol development, data form design, investigator recruitment and training, site qualification, enrollment enhancement programs, site monitoring, data management, biostatistical analysis, medical report writing, and regulatory liason and support.