QuestionsQuestions (BAI ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 13)
The Order aims to strengthen government monitoring and surveillance over banned/misbranded/counterfeit/unregistered/unsafe/unlabeled/tampered/altered veterinary and beta-agonist drugs; monitor the presence of mycotoxins in livestock, poultry, and aquaculture feeds; and ensure strict implementation of withdrawal periods for prescription or ethical veterinary drugs to protect human life and health.
Chloramphenicol.
They have been recognized as mutagenic and carcinogenic drugs with genotoxic potential.
Clenbuterol, Salbutamol, Terbutalin, and Pirbuterol.
They are used as tocolytic agents in humans but as lean meat-enhancing agents in animals; their safety profile in food animals is not established.
Mycotoxins enter the food chain through contaminated feeds ingested by animals, can be carried over to milk or edible animal tissues, and then cause harmful effects to humans.
Aflatoxin, ochratoxin, zearalenone, fumonisin, and vomitoxin.
They are described as potent liver toxins and active carcinogens that cause liver damage, liver necrosis, and hepatic tumors in animals, which may result in death.
It may lead to significant economic and commercial impact in the livestock and poultry industry due to animal illness and death.
Meat, fishery products, milk, and eggs.
Banned, misbranded, counterfeit, unregistered, unsafe, unlabelled, tampered, and/or altered veterinary and beta-agonist drugs.
The Order states such drugs may be present through feeds, water, or other means.
It requires strict implementation of the withdrawal period of prescription or ethical veterinary drugs in livestock, poultry, and aquaculture production.
It governs strict implementation of the rational use of prescription or ethical veterinary drugs to protect human life and health.
The monitoring and surveillance requirements are effective right away once approved, meaning compliance is expected without delay from the approval date.
If prior DA/BAI issuances conflict with this Order’s provisions, this Order will control for the affected matters.
The Bureau of Animal Industry.