Book I: Pharmaceutical products

I.-When veterinary medicinal products prescribed in accordance with the provisions of article R. 5141-111 are dispensed, the pharmacist or veterinarian must immediately transcribe the dispensing in ink, without blanks or overwriting, onto a register or record it using any appropriate system which does not allow the data contained therein to be altered once the registration has been validated. The recording systems allow the information provided for in this article to…

For the purposes of 2° of article L. 5143-2, the following definitions apply 1° “Prohibition on keeping a dispensary open”: The prohibition on any veterinarian from preparing extemporaneously, and dispensing by retail, a veterinary medicinal product, whether or not subject to compulsory prescription, when it is intended to be administered : a) To an animal or to several animals for which he does not personally provide care or for which…

I. – 1° The farm health report establishes the reference health status of the farm based on qualitative and quantitative criteria. It includes a list of diseases to which the farm has already been exposed, in particular those requiring priority action. It is based on a methodical analysis of information specifically adapted to each species and, where applicable, to each type of production, including clinical, biological and necropsy data, as…

I.- Medicinal products covered by the regulations on poisonous substances and containing substances mentioned in 7°, 8° or 9° of article L. 5132-2 are used in veterinary medicine in compliance with good practices defined by order of the ministers responsible for agriculture and health. These good practices set out : 1° The medicinal products concerned and their route of administration ; 2° The animal species concerned; 3° The conditions and…

For animals whose flesh or products are intended for human consumption, no more than one month’s treatment may be given in medicated feed. The veterinarian prescribing a medicated feed must ensure that the medicated feed prescribed and the feed being used do not contain the same antibiotic or coccidiostat as those used as the active ingredient in the medicated premix.

As stated in article D234-6 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, which reads as follows: “I. – Veterinary medicinal products containing substances or categories of substances with anabolic, anticatabolic or beta-agonist activity may only be administered to animals belonging to species whose flesh or products are intended for human consumption under the following conditions: 1° For therapeutic use: a) Testosterone, progesterone or derivatives which readily hydrolyse the initial…

As stated in Article R. 234-7 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, which reads as follows: “The administration of veterinary medicinal products mentioned in article D. 234-6 to animals of species whose flesh or products are intended for human consumption must be carried out by the prescribing veterinarian. These treatments are recorded in the breeding register provided for in article L. 234-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing…

The toxic and poisonous substances provided for in d of article L. 5144-1 and the medicinal products containing them are subject to the provisions of chapter II of title III of this book, with the exception of articles R. 5132-3, R. 5132-4, R. 5132-9, R. 5132-10, R. 5132-11, R. 5132-13, R. 5132-14, last paragraph, and R. 5132-22.

Substances with anti-infectious, anti-parasitic (external and internal), anti-inflammatory, analgesic, neuroleptic, anaesthetic, hormonal or anabolic properties are subject, in application of the last paragraph of article L. 5144-1, to the specific conditions of supply defined below. Without prejudice to the provisions concerning poisonous substances, the supply of the substances mentioned in the previous paragraph complies with the following rules: 1° These products may only be sold to persons authorised to hold…

I.- For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply 1° “Preventive treatment”: any individual or collective prophylactic treatment applied to healthy animals exposed to a risk factor for an infectious disease in question; 2° “Metaphylactic treatment”: any treatment applied to clinically sick animals and to other animals in the same group which, although clinically healthy, present a high probability of infection due to their close contact with…