Withdrawal periodtemps d’attente
The withdrawal period is the minimum time, set for each treatment, during which food from a treated animal, such as meat, milk or eggs, may not be placed on the market.
For a medicine used within its marketing authorisation, the withdrawal period is stated in the SPC. Outside the marketing authorisation, under the cascade, the vet sets the withdrawal period, using the minimums in article 115 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6. For meat and offal from food-producing mammals and poultry, the minimum is 1.5 times the longest SPC period, or 28 days if the medicine is not authorised for food-producing species. For milk, the minimum is 1.5 times that period, or 7 days if the medicine is not authorised for that use. For eggs the same rule applies, with a minimum of 10 days. Periods are rounded up to the next whole number of days.
For equine species, article 115 sets six months for substances on a list adopted by implementing act. Recital 25 of the regulation says vets should prescribe an appropriate withdrawal period.
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- Cascade The cascade is the derogation that lets a vet, exceptionally and on their own responsibility, prescribe a medicine outside its marketing authorisation when no authorised product exists for the species and condition (articles 112 to 114 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6).
- RCP The RCP, or SPC (summary of product characteristics), is the official document attached to a veterinary marketing authorisation that sets out the medicine’s composition, target species, indications, dosage, contraindications and withdrawal periods (article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6).
- AMM The AMM is the marketing authorisation a veterinary medicine needs before it can be sold, granted in France by the ANMV or at EU level by the European Commission.