The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2009

Possession, placing on the market and use of feedingstuffs

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24.—(1) It is an offence for any person to possess, place on the market or feed to animals any feedingstuffs incorporating veterinary medicinal products or specified feed additives unless they have been incorporated in accordance with this Schedule.

(2) It is an offence to feed to any animal, or buy, possess or supply for the purpose of feeding to any animal, any feedingstuff containing a veterinary medicinal product or specified feed additive unless—

(a)that veterinary medicinal product or specified feed additive is authorised for that species of animal and for the purpose for which it is used, or

(b)in the case of a veterinary medicinal product, it was prescribed for that animal.

(3) This paragraph does not apply in relation to feedingstuffs if the veterinary medicinal product has been incorporated in accordance with an animal test certificate or the feedingstuff has been imported in accordance with this Schedule.