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The paste is formulated ...

As this paste is labeled and sold for "equine use", is it suitable for human use - or are there other chemicals or processing methods that makes it inherently harmful to people? I understand the FDA has discouraged human use of "for animals" products - but I also know they are a bunch of bureaucrats with all that entails? Asking for a friend...

After 45 years in the veterinary profession I made some observations. Many of the drugs labeled for "veterinary use only" were processed and made in the same plants with the same stringent production methods used for humans. Any product toxic to horses will also be toxic to humans. In fact many items toxic to horses are not toxic to humans. Many of the drugs I used were made in the same production lots as were the veterinary drugs. Drugs approved for humans were tested in animals. The irony is that drugs approved for animals have to be tested in animals after they are approved for humans which means that they are tested in animals, used in humans and retested in animals. If a drug is approved and safe in a horse then at an appropriate dose it should be safe for humans but that is just my opinion. Remember that many of our antitoxins and vaccines were first made in horses then administered to humans.

The vehicle in the ivermectin 1.87& equine paste I observed to give a transient diarrhea but so does the Wuhan Virus. Another consideration IMO is that when Ivermectin was first being explored in veterinary medicine we used a high dose only to find out years later a dose ten times less was effective against parasites and is why I went with a lesser dose. Many drugs used in human medicine were used for years in veterinary medicine before the human side began or even realized their benefit.

While I'm on my soapbox may I mention that veterinarians were fighting retroviruses and coronaviruses before the human side was even aware of the viruses. It was a veterinarian that was ignored at the CDC when he hypothesized that the GRIDS virus was much like the Feline Leukemia virus. When SARS erupted the CDC had to recruit veterinarians that had been studying Coronaviruses for decades to help them begin research. Veterinarians have been trying to make an effective vaccine against Coronaviruses for decades and were thwarted with the propensity of the virus to mutate rapidly and effectively against the vaccines.