Which acts are strictly prohibited in animal husbandry in Vietnam?

The Law on Animal Husbandry 2018 of Vietnam specifies acts prohibited in animal husbandry, including:

- Breeding operated in areas not permitted for livestock rearing in cities, district-level towns, commune-level towns and residential zones except for rearing for decoration purpose and laboratory breeding without environmental pollution.

- Use of substances prohibited in animal husbandry.

- Use of antibiotics in animal feeds that are not veterinary medicine permitted to be circulated in Vietnam.

- Use of antibiotics in animal feeds as growth stimulants.

- Destruction or appropriation of livestock gene sources.

- Illegal export of precious and rare livestock gene sources.

- Import of animal products with prohibited substances in animal husbandry.

- Import, trade and processing of products made from animals died of diseases or whose death is unexplained.

- Illegal import, rearing, releasing or use of genetically modified animals and products thereof.

- Coercive use or insertion of substances or objects or injection of water into domesticated animal body and products thereof for trade fraud purpose.

- Collusion and cheating in quality experiments, testing, verification and announcement and certification of conformity in animal husbandry.

- Discharge of waste from livestock breeding not undergoing treatment or not treated in a satisfactory manner to places for waste receipt as specified in the law on environmental protection.

- Provide counterfeit information in declaration of animal husbandry for profiteering purpose.

- Obstruction, destruction and encroachment of legal livestock breeding.

View more details at the Law on Animal Husbandry 2018 of Vietnam, which takes effect from January 01, 2020.

-Thao Uyen-

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