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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-medicines-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies in relation to the following (referred to in this Schedule as “specified feed additives”) when used as feed additives—\n(a) coccidiostats;\n(b) histomonostats; and\n(c) all other zootechnical additives except—\n(i) digestibility enhancers;\n(ii) gut flora stabilisers; and\n(iii) substances incorporated with the intention of favourably affecting the environment.\n(2) It also applies in relation to the manufacture and placing on the market of feedingstuffs containing a veterinary medicinal product.\n(3) In this Schedule—\n“premixture” means a mixture of a veterinary medicinal product or a specified feed additive with feed materials, intended for further mixing with feedingstuffs before being fed to animals;\n“zootechnical additive” means any additive used to maintain animals in good health or favourably affect their performance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2745/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:34.048072+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."
}