SLICE Sea Lice Treatment
SLICE
SLICE is used for the treatment and control of infestations of all parasitic stages of sea lice (Lepeophtheirus sp. and Caligus sp.) on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ranging in size from smolts in freshwater (just prior to transfer to seawater) to market weight fish in seawater.
Product detailer:
SLICE Technical Monograph (pdf)
Product detailer:
SLICE Technical Monograph (pdf)
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Product Classification: POM-V
POM-V medications can only be prescribed by a vet. They can be dispensed by vets or pharmacists. Formerly POM products and a few P products
Uses
SLICE is used for the treatment and control of infestations of all parasitic stages of sea lice (Lepeophtheirus sp. and Caligus sp.) on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ranging in size from smolts in freshwater (just prior to transfer to seawater) to market weight fish in seawater.For uses, contra-indications and warnings and other information, read the product datasheet. Further information is also available on request from the manufacturer (adjacent tab).
Dosage and administration
Administer medicated feed to fish at the recommended feeding rate of 0.5% biomass/day for 7 days in order to yield a dose rate of 50 micrograms per kg of fish daily.If the feeding rate differs from 0.5% biomass/day, then the concentration of SLICE in feed must be adjusted proportionately.
The following table is provided for reference.
| Feeding rate (% biomass of fish) | Concentration of emamectin benzoate in feed medicated with SLICE (mg/kg) | Quantity of SLICE per 1,000 kg of medicated feed (kg) | Quantity of SLICE-medicated feed per 1,000 kg of fish per day (kg) |
| 0.25 | 20.0 | 10.0 | 2.5 |
| 0.5 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| 1.0 | 5.0 | 2.5 | 10.0 |
| 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.25 | 20.0 |
| 3.0 | 1.67 | 0.833 | 30.0 |
| 4.0 | 1.25 | 0.625 | 40.0 |
SLICE-medicated fish feed is to be prepared only at commercial fish feed mills and not at fish farms.
SLICE is to be coated onto feedstuff comprised of extruded pellets of varying thickness and length, e.g. 3.5 mm, 5.0 mm, 7.0 mm and 10,00 mm.
Recommended Method of Incorporation
SLICE is to be coated onto feedstuff comprised of extruded cylindrical pellets, which may be of varying thickness and length. SLICE may be coated onto the surface of non-medicated fish feed in the following manner:
- Standard feed is transported by a conveyor belt to a fractioning sieve where dust and fragments are sorted out.
- The sorted pellets are transferred to an intensive mixer.
- The pellets are dry-mixed/coated with a predetermined amount of SLICE for up to 2 minutes.
- 0.5% to 1% fish or vegetable oil is added and mixing continued for up to 5 minutes. The added oil seals the premix powder to the feed pellet.
- At the completion of mixing, the product is transferred to a feeder tank for packaging into sacks.
To ensure that tissue residues do not exceed the MRL, fish must not be treated more than once in the 60 days prior to the first fish being harvested for human consumption.
The recommended maximum number of marine treatments is 5 per 2 year growth cycle and not more than 3 per 12 month period.
To reduce the possibility of resistance development in sea lice it is recommended that emamectin benzoate is used in integrated control programmes with the following considerations:
- Administration of the correct dosage rate over the full seven day period
- Medication of an appropriate amount of feed to ensure complete and homogeneous consumption
- Careful feeding practices to monitor feeding behaviour
- Use of the product in the absence of any intercurrent disease affecting appetite
- Simultaneous medication of all fish on a site
- Coordination of treatments of all farms in a loch or bay system to reduce cross-infestation
- Use of good management practices such as single age sites, all-in-all-out systems and fallowing between production cycles
For uses, contra-indications and warnings and other information, read the product datasheet. Further information is also available on request from the manufacturer (adjacent tab).
This product is manufactured by:
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Intervet / Schering-Plough Animal Health Walton Manor Walton Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK7 7AJ Telephone: 01908 685685 Fax: 01908 685555 |
Further information regards this product is available from the manufacturer.
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