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Hi , nice thread for a really big problem which is really in the actuallity.
Normaly the delivery of antibiotics for animals should be delivered only with a vet prescription and sold by somebody who is allowed to sell drugs (chemist, vet ). If some petshop has to sell drugs, they should have a vet covering the responsability, normally the big one have a salaried vet.
When the vet make a prescription, he should indicate the complete identification of the animal so that confusion is impossible (ex Male Girin kushibeni sadan kohaku or electronic identification for company animals), the name of the owner and the way of using it.
You can imagine that the low is so difficult to follow that it's quiete impossible to respect it for all animal, so why ,until now, it was accepted that some people were selling some stuff that they weren't allowed to sell.
Actually in europe, governements try to put some order and make a lot of control by shops, chemist, vet and when they find some irregularity they give some tax penality.
I know a vet in North of France who had a control in his office for all the prescription he made for one year and they found 150 small irregularity so he has been condamed to pay 250.000 €uros !!!!!! Of course he doesn't accept his bankrupt, so he's going in court but we don't know what will be deceided.
The low is also more complicated for vet working with big animals so that a few one have deceided to stop their big animals activity and only work with small one.
In fact all begin to be really complicate for everybody.
I don't know how things will go on, but the time when it was easy to find antibiotics and other drugs is over.
Marco
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