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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010 No. 388
27. No other substance, with the exception of those given for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes or for the purpose of zootechnical treatment, may be administered to animals unless it has been demonstrated by scientific studies of animal welfare or established experience that the effect of that substance is not detrimental to the health or welfare of the animals; and in this paragraph “zootechnical treatment” has the meaning given by Article 1(2)(c) of Council Directive 96/22/EC(1) concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists, and repealing Directives 81/602/EEC, 88/146/EEC and 88/299/EEC.
O.J. No. L 125, 23.5.1996, p.3, last amended by Directive 2008/97/EC (O.J. No. L 318, 28.11.2008, p.9).
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