Medicinal treatments recorded on passport

[CVSHotShot]

Just a quick question about the section in the passport that is named 'Medicinal treatment' This section as far as I can gather, is to record any medication which the horse has received which would prevent it from entering the food chain (feel free to correct me if I am wrong)

In this section there is a record of one treatment which has been dated & signed but the name of the medication has not been recorded at all.
As I did not own her at this time I rang the practice and asked if they could provide me with more information, to which they replied they had no record of ANY treatments on that date :S

They suggested that this may either have been Bute or Sedaline. Curious to know if there are there any other drugs that this may have been that may have masked an injury?

Thanks in advance x

 

[2horsesnomoney]

I think this section is also for owners to sign and prevent the horse from ever entering the food chain once it has been sigend by any previous owner the horse can never enter into the food chain. I think anyway - anyone else correct me if i am wrong....

 

[serenityjane]

Any horse that has ever had bute cannot enter the food chain- vets are now quite hot on this and should ask to see the passport when they prescribe bute to ensure that the animal does not enter the food chain by mistake because the passport has no record.

 

[sywell]

It is interesting to note that some people sign section IX to prevent the horse entering the human food chain and then there is no need to enter any drug treatments. Then when selling the horse it has a clean passport but a horse with section IX not signed off has a minor foot infection and has a list on entries that might put off a buyer. The EU commission is of the opinion that there should be an entry in the passport in the UK when a horse is chipped as we are one of the few countries where it can only be done by a vet in other countries any approved person can do it.