The Government Analyst Department is reminding all importers of veterinary drugs that it has implemented a programme to regularise the importation and sale of such drugs in order to reduce the incidence of unauthorised drugs or residues appearing in food products.
In a press release, the Department said it collaborated with the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) and the Ministry of Agriculture to implement the programme. It noted that in modern agricultural farming veterinary drugs are commonly used in animals as therapeutic agents to increase feed efficiency, prevent outbreak of
