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AgVetLink for PAR Traders September 2004

Animal feed manufacturers

When prescription animal remedies are incorporated into animal feeds at the point of manufacture, it may be appropriate for the feed manufacturer to be approved as a trader by the ACVM Group. Under other circumstances it may not be necessary. See below.

Do all feed manufacturers have to be approved as traders in prescription animal remedies?

No. It is up to individual feed manufacturers to make the business decision to trade in PAR products and to become an approved trader.

Traders

Any party who intends to stock prescription animal remedies in order to fill veterinary prescriptions must be approved as a trader. This means that they are intending to stock PAR products under their own authority, speculating that veterinarians may send prescriptions to them to be filled or that members of the public may bring prescriptions to them to be filled. Trading in PAR products would be a stated purpose of their business. Any feed manufacturer who also wants to have a business trading in PAR products must be an approved trader and must apply to the ACVM Group.

NOT traders

Feed manufacturers who only provide a service of incorporating PAR products into feed but do not intend to set up a PAR trading business do not have to be approved as traders. To make the distinction clear, the feed manufacturer who is only providing a feed mixing service can hold in stock only the PAR products that are specified in an authorisation to hold particular PAR products issued by a registered veterinarian to fill his/her prescriptions. (Approved traders do not have to have such authorisations.)

Intent

The ACVM Group considers the intent is sufficiently specific to make it unnecessary for those few feed manufacturers who are simply supplying a mixing service to be approved as traders in PAR products.

If feed manufacturers do not want to become approved traders, they must make it clear in the way that they operate and record their activities that they are providing a mixing service only.