To: Importers of livestock and poultry feed products

In response to the guidelines from the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on the roadmap for limitation on, and step forward in prohibition of, use of antibiotics for growth promotion in livestock and poultry feeds, the Department of Livestock Production hereby requests Importers of animal feeds to implement the following duties from January 1, 2018 in accordance with the Circular No. 06/2016/TT-BNNPTNT dated May 31, 2016:

1. Halt importation of animal feeds containing antibiotics for growth promotion that are not prescribed by the Circular No. 06 from May 1, 2017 and take responsibility for taking monitoring actions to ensure that none of animal fee products which are not covered by the Circular No. 06, in case of having already been imported ahead of that date, will no longer be sold in the market after June 30, 2017. 

2. Terminate importation of all animal feeds containing antibiotics for growth promotion from October 1, 2017 and take responsibility for taking monitoring actions to ensure that none of animal feed products which have already been imported ahead of that date, will no longer be sold in the market from January 1, 2018. 

3. Submit a review report on importation and consumption of shipments of animal feeds containing antibiotics which have already been imported ahead of April 10, 2017, and plan for consumption of the volume of animal feeds containing antibiotics which have been registered for importation (according to the form hereto attached) when applying for registration of inspection of quality of animal feeds containing antibiotics from that date. 

The Department of Livestock Production hereby calls for strict compliance of importers with the aforesaid./.

SAMPLE REVIEW REPORT ON CONSUMPTION OF IMPORTED SHIPMENTS OF ANIMAL FEEDS

(Appended to the Official Dispatch No. 468/2017/CN-TĂCN dated March 31, 2017)

SAMPLE REVIEW REPORT ON CONSUMPTION OF IMPORTED SHIPMENTS OF ANIMAL FEEDS

To the Department of Livestock Production

The reporting entity’s name: ................................................................................................

Address: ..............................................................................................................................

Telephone: …………………….; Fax: …………; Email: .......................................................

We would like to submit our review report on importation and consumption of shipments of animal feeds containing antibiotics, including the following contents:

- Name of the animal feeds containing antibiotics: ..............................................................

- Name and content of antibiotics used in animal feed products:.........................................

- Code of certification (number of import registration): ........................................................

- Description of products and product origin: .......................................................................

- Shipment weight (kg): ........................................................................................................

- Code of the application dossier for inspection of quality of animal feed products: ............

- Certificate of quality assurance No.:……………..issued by………….on…………..(Name of the issuing organization).

1. Review report on consumption of shipments of animal feed products

2. Plan for use or distribution of the said inventory quantities and newly-imported shipments