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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prohibition-of-non-medicinal-antimicrobial-substances-amendment-order-1992/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2684",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) (Amendment) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-prohibition-of-non-medicinal-antimicrobial-substances-amendment-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment",
  "text": "(1) The Medicines (Prohibition of Non-medicinal Antimicrobial Substances) Order 1977 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.\n(2) In Schedule 2—\n(a) in column 2 (purpose) in relation to the entry “3. Streptomycins” there shall be added, at the end, the following subparagraph—\n“(3) When used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.”;\n(b) at the end there shall be added the following paragraphs—\n“\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nSubstance\nPurpose\nCircumstances\n4 Amphotericins\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n5 Gentamicins\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n6 Kanamycins\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n7 Lincomycins\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n8 Nystatin\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n9 Penicillins\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n10 Spectinomycin\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n11 Tylosin\nWhen used, sold or supplied for use as a preservative in a product used in the artificial breeding of animals.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/2131."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2684/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:12:54.238866+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}