SHARING OPTIONS:
The Irish Farmers Journal understands that the Minister for Agriculture will meet stakeholders in the coming weeks.
A meeting between the Department of Agriculture and the anti-parasitic stakeholder group (APR) ended in chaos last week with widespread condemnation of the lack of progress in finding a solution to the problems set to be created by the looming changes to veterinary medicines dispensing rules.
The current proposals would see all licensed medicines and dosing products requiring a prescription before they can be sold to a farmer from January 2022 onwards.
Secretary general of the Independent Licensed Merchants Association (ILMA) Ian Scott said the APR stakeholder meetings “are a complete charade” and “a clever yet cynical box-ticking exercise on behalf of the Department."