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Details of the confiscation notice delivered after the package was sent to the Kingston Veterinary Office in Surrey.

The following veterinary drugs have been identified by the courier company. These products were detained by the Veterinary Drug Administration and subsequently confiscated.

The package was sent to the veterinarian in Kingston, Surrey, and was shipped from India. The package contains the following medicines:

These are human drugs. The documents included in the package indicate that they are used to treat dogs.

Human products can only be used to import products by veterinarians who raise animals and obtain a Special Import Certificate (SIC) by VMR's Schedule 4 (Managing Veterinary Drug Products Outside of Marketing Authorization Terms).

These drugs were seized under Article 25 (Import of Unauthorized Veterinary Drug Products) of the 2013 Veterinary Drug Regulations.

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