Treatment of Livestock - draft proposal open for submissions

Following recommendations by the Productivity Commission in 2008 and 2016, the States and Territories, facilitated by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR), are developing a framework for national harmonisation of veterinary prescribing and compounding.

With some restrictions under the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 and the Stock Medicines Act 1989 (most notably in relation to food producing species), the supply options for a veterinarian in NSW include a registered product for that animal species, a registered product for use in another animal species or humans or an unregistered product compounded by either a compounding pharmacy or the veterinarian.