Abstract
Legislation covering the medication of fish is designed to ensure the quality of available medicinal substances and their safety and efficacy in use. Safety in this context comprises all four aspects listed in Section 2.1.1 and elaborated in Chapter 2. These legislative aims have resulted in enactments of two distinct kinds: in the first case control is exercised over who may supply and use medicinal substances and how they should be labelled; in the second case control is exercised over the circumstances in which those substances may be used. The provisions needing to be incorporated in enactments of the first kind are not significantly different for fish from those needed for mammals and birds, and indeed, Man; in many countries a single enactment covers medicinal substances for all target species. The second kind tends to be specific to fish medicines: it arises from the problems of environmental safety which are peculiar to fish medication and may control the quantities and frequency of use of certain medicaments and manner of discharge of water from farms where they have been used.
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Treves-Brown, K.M. (2000). The Law. In: Applied Fish Pharmacology. Aquaculture, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0761-9_3
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