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AgVetLink March 2004 - Special Issue for Veterinarians: Page 10

Restricted Veterinary Medicines

Our major overseas trading partners have banned the substances listed below. In consequence, these substances may not be used at any time during the life of an animal from which any product may be taken and exported from New Zealand for human consumption.

• All compounds of the nitrofuran class of compound, including but not limited to nitrofurazone, furaltadone, ninhydrazone, furazolidone 

• All compounds that exert a thyreostatic action: methyl thiouracil, phenyl thiouracil, propyl thiouracil 

• Beta sympathomimetic agents: cimetarol, salbutamol 

• All compounds of the nitroimidazole class of compound, including but not limited to metronidazole or ronidazole 

• Arsenilic acid 

• Chloramphenicol 

• Chloroform 

• Chlorpromazine

• Colchichine

• Dapsone 

• Diethylstilbestrol 

• Nandrolone 

• Phenylbutazone