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In forceAmended2005 Revised Edition

33. Veterinary drug residues

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2023.

(1)

In these Regulations, “veterinary drug” means a substance applied or administered to a food producing animal (including a meat-producing or milk-producing animal, poultry, a fish or a bee) whether or not the substance is used for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic purpose or for modification of physiological functions or behaviour. (2) A person must not import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food that contains any veterinary drug residue unless —

(a)

the article of food is a tissue of an animal specified in the Eighteenth Schedule and the amount of veterinary drug residue does not exceed the maximum residue limit specified in that Schedule for the tissue; or

(b)

the article of food is manufactured using, or mixed with, the tissue of an animal specified in the Eighteenth Schedule and the amount of veterinary drug residue does not exceed the maximum residue limit specified in that Schedule for the quantity of the tissue in the article of food.

Subregulation 1

In these Regulations, “veterinary drug” means a substance applied or administered to a food producing animal (including a meat-producing or milk-producing animal, poultry, a fish or a bee) whether or not the substance is used for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic purpose or for modification of physiological functions or behaviour.

Subregulation 2

A person must not import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food that contains any veterinary drug residue unless —

(a)

the article of food is a tissue of an animal specified in the Eighteenth Schedule and the amount of veterinary drug residue does not exceed the maximum residue limit specified in that Schedule for the tissue; or

(b)

the article of food is manufactured using, or mixed with, the tissue of an animal specified in the Eighteenth Schedule and the amount of veterinary drug residue does not exceed the maximum residue limit specified in that Schedule for the quantity of the tissue in the article of food.

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