Horse passports - DEFRA approved?

[Nels]

I recently bought a horse and he came with a German passport. I have had 3 different vets out to see him since I purchased him and the first two looked at his passport for information/to add his jab records to it and didn't comment on the passport itself. However the last vet has commented that my passport is not DEFRA approved and so I need to apply for a new one/get pages added. I think this could be due to that vet prescriving him both bute and antibiotics recently and so the horse can no longer enter the human food chain.

Can anybody here please advise what i need to do/good sites to go to for information? Thought I would get some ideas from here first because the DEFRA site was quite confusing and i am new to this whole horse passport thing!

Many thanks x

 

[vicijp]

I think you may just need the new medication record pages.
I just request them from Weatherbys and clip them in the clear pocket at the back.
I dare say Defra do something similar, and you would probably get them sent to you off a simple phone call.

 

[Ciss]

Absiolutely no need to do it. Have PM'd you with extra guidance.

General note to everyone. Unfortunately some vets are active agents for ID only PIOs (eg Pet ID, Horse Passport Agency etc) and are so keen to make money from this that they try to tell people that existing passports issued by stud books are not proper DEFRA-approved passports. NOT TRUE. Always check with the original PIO (passport issuer) about updating it first before even thinking about replacing it with a new one as duplicate passports are ILLEGAL and (if issued by an ID-only PIO) are usually incomplete anyway.

Passports issued abroad can be difficult but the British Hannoverian Horse Society will probably be able to advise what to do in the case of most German ones and SHBGB or AES will usually help in other cases -- or for ponies try SPSS.