Council Directive 90/167/EEC laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the Community.

The purpose of this Directive is to lay down the conditions, other than those of animal health, governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs within the Community. As regards the scope, the Directive shall not affect Community rules applicable to additives used in feedingstuffs, or national rules adopted pursuant to the said rules, and in particular those applicable to the additives entered in Annex II of Directive 70/524/EEC.
Member States shall prescribe that, as regards the medicinal component, medicated feedingstuffs may be manufactured from authorized medicated pre-mixes only (art. 3). Moreover, medicated feedingstuffs are to be manufactured only under the conditions set out in article 4. Member States shall prescribe that medicated feedingstuffs may be placed on the market only in packages or containers sealed in such a way that, when the package is opened, the closure or seal is damaged and they cannot be re-used.