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Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
Summary of product characteristics for Syvazul BTV-3 vaccine in the UK
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
Requirements for an Animal Test Certificate (ATC) to carry out the field trial of a veterinary medicine in animals (clinical trial) in the UK.
Guidance on medicines for food and non-food horses and record keeping requirements including the horse passport.
This enforcement policy sets out the general principles and approach taken by the VMD.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for an authorisation to place a veterinary medicine on the UK market or part of, or to expire one.
Legal requirements for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
Requirement to analyse samples from food producing animals for residues of veterinary medicines and prohibited substances.
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