Continue to Crack Down On The Illegal Use of Veterinary Drugs And Additives in 2022

In recent years, with the increasing demand for animal food, in order to increase the output of livestock and poultry and pursue the maximization of benefits, some farmers have experienced many illegal use of drugs, excessive use of veterinary drugs and illegal use of drug additives. Condition. The illegal use of veterinary drugs and additives leads to excessive drug residues in livestock and poultry products. Once consumed by humans for a long time, it will cause varying degrees of harm to the human body, induce the production of drug-resistant strains, and even cause mutations, carcinogenicity, and teratogenicity.

In view of this, in recent years, law enforcement agencies have been focusing on cracking down on the illegal use of veterinary drugs and additives. Judging from the information collected by the China Veterinary Drug and Feed Trading Center, this year, the law enforcement authorities will still take cracking down on the illegal use of veterinary drugs and additives as one of their priorities in 2022.

At the end of 2021, seven departments including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Edible Agricultural Products to "Control Illegal Drugs and Disability Promotion". untie. The "Plan" mentioned that before the end of 2024, the quality monitoring of pesticides and veterinary drugs will be increased, and the hidden addition of banned ingredients or other ingredients will be strictly investigated.

From April to July 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will organize a special rectification action for illegal use of drugs in frog breeding. The focus includes the detection of veterinary drug residues in frogs and the supervision of results, as well as the establishment and improvement of the traceability mechanism of frog products.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has researched and formulated the "Special Law Enforcement Action Plan of "China's Fishery Policy Bright Sword 2022" series, launched a special action to regulate the use of inputs for aquaculture, and cracked down on illegal use of inputs such as veterinary drugs, feed and feed additives for aquaculture in accordance with the law behavior, and improve the quality and safety level of aquaculture aquatic products.

The Ministry of Public Security has urgently deployed the "Kunlun 2022" special campaign to further focus on cracking down on prominent crimes that endanger food safety, such as excessive pesticide and veterinary drug residues, illegal additions, and "Internet celebrity" fake and inferior food.

The "2022 Key Points of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Work" issued by Guangdong and Jilin Provinces has also successively focused on illegal acts of selling counterfeit and inferior veterinary drugs, feed and other breeding inputs.

In fact, the illegal use of veterinary drugs and additives is not only the focus of rectification, but has always been a hot spot of public concern. In recent years, the "3•15 Party" has successively exposed incidents such as abuse of pharmaceutical feed additives such as olaquindox, illegal sales, and use of veterinary drug raw powder. The former led to the prohibition of raw materials and related preparations of 3 veterinary drugs such as oxaethanol, aminophenylarsinic acid, and roxarsine, while the latter prompted the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to issue the "Emergency Notice on Strengthening the Supervision of Sea Cucumber Breeding Drugs", and organized various localities to carry out The special rectification action for illegal and illegal drug use in sea cucumber farming has continuously increased the crackdown on illegal and illegal use of pesticides and banned drugs, sales of raw materials, and unlicensed operations.

Regarding the illegal use of veterinary drugs and additives, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Announcement No. 97 stipulates severe punishments, including veterinary drug users who violate the relevant state regulations on the safe use of veterinary drugs and know that the veterinary vaccines they use are fake vaccines, but still use them illegally. Article 62 of the Regulations on the Administration of Veterinary Drugs shall impose a fine according to the upper limit; those who cause losses to others shall be liable for compensation according to law.