The keeping and retention of veterinary medicine records
(for England and Wales)
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If you are the keeper of food producing animals, (including horses unless declared as not intended for human consumption in the horse passport), or treating farm animals which will end up as food intended for human consumption, you must keep a record of the proof of purchase of all veterinary medicinal products bought for those animals.
If you did not buy the animals, documentary evidence of how you acquired them, and a record of any veterinary medicinal product you give them or treat them with is needed. Animals may be sent for slaughter only after the end of the withdrawal period. These records must be kept for five years.
