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Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
Reported problems with the supply of an animal medicine and the date when the issue is expected to be resolved.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, how to obtain advice and report non-compliance.
Advisory note from the UK Chief Veterinary Officer for veterinarians prescribing BTV-3 vaccines.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
All national applications will be processed on one of six timetables that vary in length depending on the complexity and nature of the application under 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.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
Guidance on medicines for food and non-food horses and record keeping requirements including the horse passport.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
Legal requirements for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
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