Animal health and veterinary translation covers documents relating to veterinary medicines, vaccines, feed additives and animal health products. Like its human-health counterpart, the field is tightly regulated in terms of authorisation, labelling and safety — but it has its own authorities, terminology that varies by species, and a dimension that reaches into food safety.
Frequently translated documents include veterinary marketing authorisation dossiers, summaries of product characteristics and package leaflets, vaccine and biological product documentation, feed and feed additive labels, field study and clinical reports, pharmacovigilance reports, and information materials for animal owners and veterinarians.
In Europe, veterinary medicinal products fall under the Veterinary Medicinal Products Regulation ((EU) 2019/6), with applications assessed by the EMA and national authorities. In Türkiye, veterinary medicines and biological products come under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Labelling and leaflet rules differ from market to market, and the translation follows those rules.
In veterinary texts, terminology changes with the species (cattle, poultry, cats and dogs, fish) and the indication. Dosage, route of administration and, above all, the withdrawal period in food-producing animals concern the safety not only of the animal but of the consumer. Translation therefore rests on specialists who know both the language and the field, on approved terminology and on editing by an independent editor.
Specialising in medical and life sciences translation for over thirty years, Mirora serves the animal health sector with the same ISO 9001-certified, ISO 17100-aligned workflow.
We have worked with an animal health organisation for more than ten years. In the past three years alone we completed 135 projects for this client and translated 408,550 words. Because veterinary terminology changes with species and indication, we maintained a separate glossary for each product throughout.
"We were translating a comprehensive vaccine study in poultry health. The word 'turkey' appeared dozens of times throughout the document, and each time it pointed to one thing only: the bird.
But in a table at the very end, the countries where the study had been conducted were listed. There, standing on its own, the same word meant something else entirely — not the bird, but our own country, Türkiye. That single word changed lanes in the final line of the document, and we caught it neither in translation nor in editing.
It was our client, one we have worked shoulder to shoulder with for years, who noticed. The note they sent, with a gentle smile, has stayed with us: 'I've fixed it — just add it to your memory.'
We tell this story to every translator and editor who joins our team. Because in specialised texts, the real trap is not the terms you have never seen; it is the words you are certain you know. Meaning is determined not by a word's dictionary entry but by the precise context it sits in.
This is the experience behind the way we work today: terminology lists built not only by sector but per product and per study, and every text reviewed by an independent specialist."
Species-specific terminology, different authorities and concepts such as the withdrawal period, which touches food safety, make it a specialism of its own.
Authorisation dossiers, SmPCs and leaflets, vaccine documentation, feed labels, field study and pharmacovigilance reports, and information materials.
In Europe, the EMA and national authorities under (EU) 2019/6; in Türkiye, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
It is the time between administering a medicine to a food-producing animal and when its products can be consumed; a mistranslation directly affects consumer safety.
Through species- and product-specific approved glossaries and translation memory, with every text edited by an independent editor.
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