Mr. Tim Kirby:

It is very feasible to create a mobile unit for these clinics. I do not have personal experience of a mobile clinic but I imagine that it is possible to do that, in practice.

In terms of the regulation of drugs, there is not a set database that could report that a specific batch of drugs is not recorded by the end user. There is no larger database that feeds in to this. Where a single unit or a batch is produced in the manufacturing plant of whatever company that makes this drug, that is not traced right down the chain to the end user nor is there an upstream of information back to the producer that says: "We have got a log of every single entry point where this drug was used and, therefore, we can record, we have documented and we can prove that the drug [be it a bottle or vial that was manufactured] was used in X, Y or Z facility." That chain of events does not exist in animal health. I certainly know from the larger animal side that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is introducing a much better system where the specific use of drugs can be recorded and documented. On the companion animal side, that does not exist at present.