Record Keeping for Antibiotics – Farm Animals and Horses

Record keeping for antibiotics – farm animals and horses

Keeping records is a legal requirement for all medicines, including antibiotics (and vaccines), administered to food-producing animals.

You must record:

Amounts given
Date(s) given
Batch numbers
Expiry dates
Withdrawal periods, where applicable
Date of first use on multi-dose medicines
These records must be kept for 5 years.

It is important to remember that horses (and ponies, donkeys, asses and zebras) are considered by law to be food-producing species in the European Union.