Annual update of rules and fees for veterinary medicinal products

Relevant to
The following in the UK - veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturers and marketers, wholesalers and retailers such as pet shops; veterinary surgeons; suitably qualified persons who supply veterinary medicines; registered pharmacists and pharmacies; owners and keepers of food-producing animals, including farmers and beekeepers; agricultural merchants and saddlers; animal charities providing veterinary treatment; owners and keepers of companion and other non food-producing animals, and exotic animals

Took effect on
1 October 2008

From 1 October 2008, amended rules and fees will apply to the control of veterinary medicinal products (VMPs), authorisations, appeals against refused authorisations, record keeping and other practices.

They will affect many activities including:

• non-embryonic equine stem cells - new controls will affect the collection, supply and implantation of stem cells taken from donor adult animals or the umbilical cord of newly born animals
• supplying non-food animals with blood products from blood banks - the existing authorisation and controls on the collection and storage of whole blood will also cover its separate parts - eg plasma or white blood cells
• the Veterinary Medicine Directorate (VMD) will be able to quickly restrict the type of authorisation of a VMP manufacturer or wholesaler marketing non-compliant VMPs while allowing them to continue marketing compliant VMPs

Other changes will affect:

• suitably qualified persons, who will be able to work from registered veterinary surgeon's premises or pharmacy premises without having to register such premises twice
• veterinary surgeons, who will be permitted under a new type of Animal Test Certificate to carry out small-scale clinical trials
• premises mixing medicated feed for ornamental fish - not intended for food - will be exempt from the approval requirement if they use less than a kilogram of VMP per year
• manufacturers of products marketed under the Small Animal Exemption Scheme (SAES) will have the option of showing either their own or a distributor's name and address on the label
• manufacturers, importers and retailers of SAES products will be required to record all suspected adverse reactions reported to them and report them to the VMD within 15 days

You must register veterinary premises from which VMPs are supplied before 1 April 2009.

• Access veterinary medicines regulations and guidance notes on the VMD website - Opens in a new window
• Download the explanatory memorandum to the veterinary medicines regulations from the Office of Public Sector Information website (PDF) - Opens in a new window

Full title of regulation
Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2008 [SI 2008 2297]

From
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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