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Prohibited Substances

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 (as depot formulations, growth promotants and/or with WHPs in excess of 15 days)
Phenylbutazone
Stanozolol (as depot formulations, growth promotants and/or with WHPs in excess of 15 days)