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Animal medicine seizure notice: Border Force, Inverness Airport

Details of seizure notice served at Border Force, Inverness Airport following a routine search. Published in June 2020.

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The following veterinary medicines were detained and subsequently seized at Border Force, Inverness Airport following an attempt to import:

  • 1 x Equine Bute Paste
  • 2 x 100ml Ketoprofen Injection
  • 2 x 100ml Buscopan Compositum
  • 2 x 100ml Doxycycline Paste
  • 2 x 5ml Calmat Injection
  • 6 x 50ml Syntocin Injections
  • 100 x 1.3g sachets of Butalone Granules

These products were intended for use in horses and are not UK authorised products.

The medicines were seized under Regulation 25 (Importation of unauthorised veterinary medicinal products) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.

Published 8 June 2020