The Medicines (Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st June 1996, further amend the Medicines (Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Enforcement) Regulations 1985 (“the principal Regulations”), and implement:

(a) Eleventh Commission Directive 93/70/EEC establishing Community analysis methods for official control of feeding stuffs (OJ No. L 234, 17.9.93, p.17) which establishes a Community method of analysis to be used in the course of official checks on animal feeding stuffs to identify their halofuginone content (regulation 2(2) and (3)(b)); and

(b) Twelfth Commission Directive 93/117/EC establishing Community analysis methods for official control of feeding stuffs (OJ No. L 329, 30.12.93, p.54) to be used in the course of official checks on animal feeding stuffs to identify their robenidine and methyl benzoquate content (regulation 2(2) and (3)(b)).

The Regulations also revise the format of, and make other minor amendments to, Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 2(3)), including increasing the amount of concentrated hydrochloric acid which is used as a reagent in the method of analysis for the determination of nifursol from 24ml to 25ml.

The methods of analysis which must be used for the specified substances are unchanged save that:

(a) the methods of analysis previously specified for acinitrazole, nitrofurazone and nitrovin have been omitted from Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations because the incorporation of such substances in animal feeding stuffs is no longer permitted; and

(b) methods of analysis are now prescribed for halofuginone, robenidine and methyl benzoquate.

The Regulations also make other consequential amendments to the principal Regulations to take into account the new revised format of Schedule 3 (regulation 2(2)).