Ministerial Decree No. 74 of 1 October 2018 validating the Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation on poultry growing at poultry farms. Country/Territory Belarus Document type Regulation Date 2018 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock Keyword Drugs Animal feed/feedstuffs Poultry Hygiene/sanitary procedures Slaughtering Animal health Geographical area CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Entry into force notes This Ministerial Decree enters into force after its official publication. Abstract Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation on poultry growing at poultry farms establishes mandatory requirements for compliance by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs with the safety of works and services related to maintenance, growing and breeding, movement, trade, slaughtering of poultry, disposal, burial, destruction of poultry corpses and products of animal origin. Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs engaged in keeping, growing, breeding, transportation and trade of poultry at poultry farms are obliged: (a) to ensure that veterinary measures are taken when keeping, raising, breeding, transporting and trading poultry; and (b) to create conditions for conducting clinical and diagnostic examinations of poultry. It shall be prohibited: (a) keeping other species of animals on the poultry farm; (b) keeping poultry in personal farmsteads of the employees serving the of poultry at the poultry farm; and (c) to provide services by veterinary specialists in poultry production facilities to livestock in private ownership of citizens. For all categories of poultry it is prohibited to use feeding antibiotics. Anticoccidial drugs should be excluded from the diet, according to the period of bird excretion specified in the instructions for use the appropriate veterinary drugs, but not less than five days before slaughter of poultry. Full text Russian Website www.pravo.by References - Legislation Repeals Decree No. 15 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food validating Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation on growing of swine. Legislation | Belarus | 2013 Keyword: Swine, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health, Animal reproduction, Pests/diseases, Disinfection/disinfestation Source: FAO, FAOLEX Decree No. 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food validating Veterinary and sanitary regulation on poultry growing in poultry growing farms. Legislation | Belarus | 2017 Keyword: Animal production, Poultry, Slaughtering, Disinfection/disinfestation, Animal feed/feedstuffs Source: FAO, FAOLEX