to farmers adopting better farming practices. However here in the UK high standards of animal husbandry combine with already excellent veterinarian practices to limit overall antibiotic use. The European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis
Andriukaitis, stated in the European Parliament last year that “the draft regulation includes a ban on preventive use of antibiotics in groups of animals”, a later EU press release said the new law “would limit the prophylactic use of antimicrobials (i.e. as a preventive measure, in the absence of clinical signs of infection) to single animals, only when fully justified by a veterinarian in cases where there is a high risk of infection with severe consequences”. It’s unclear which new rules will be adopted by the UK after
Brexit, however during the transition period the UK is bound by decisions taken by the EU27 countries; the UK will be outside all the EU decision-making bodies but must follow their rules. Back in 2018 George Eustice, then farming minister, said the
EU’s antibiotic restrictions would be implemented. However, as yet the UK’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate hasn’t confirmed that it will implement EU ban on the prophylactic use of farm antibiotics post Brexit. In which case the UK could end up with weaker regulatory
standards than the EU. Which raises the question about the kind of post Brexit agricultural trade deal we can enter into with the EU and just what can be exported to the EU, animal feed included. In the meantime if the Brexit impasse continues into 2022, or if
the new EU legislation is enshrined into British Law, then British feed compounders need to be aware of the EU’s transitional measures concerning continued approval and registration. Essentially by the 28 July 2022, there is an EU requirement for
existing feed manufacturers to submit a declaration to the relevant competent authority in the area where their facilities are located, in a form decided upon by that competent authority, that they continue to meet EU requirements for approval and registration. Where the declaration is not submitted within the specified
period, the competent authority can suspend a feed manufacturer’s registration. One assumes the competent authority in England, Scotland
and Wales is the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD). Certainly new entrants to the industry need premises approval from them to undertake the following: manufacture and distribute specified feed additives (SFAs); manufacture and distribute pre-mixtures containing SFAs and/or veterinary medicines; manufacture complementary or complete feeding stuffs containing SFAs; manufacture complete feeding stuffs containing veterinary medicines, all of which are Schedule 5 activities as described in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations. It can only be hoped that over the next few months the situation
regarding the UK’s approach to prophylactic antibiotic use is clarified.
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