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Requesting comments on draft risk profiles and risk management evaluations for 5 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.
Covering thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide: temporary guidance for pregnancy prevention arrangements for patients taking them during COVID-19
Register as a manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances.
This guide is about infections that occur in people who inject drugs (PWID).
You must have a licence to import or export ozone-depleting substances (ODS) to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
This page contains an overview of the Psychoactive Substances Act and supporting documents.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire promotes the UK’s balanced approach towards tackling drug use, with a focus on the challenge of synthetic opioids.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
You can claim relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing therapeutic substances of human origin, blood-grouping or tissue-typing reagents, or related packaging, solvents and accessories.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) culture collections offer a range of products and services for medical science and laboratory healthcare use.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
Requirement to analyse samples from food producing animals for residues of veterinary medicines and prohibited substances.
These reports explain our assessment of the scientific evidence used to lead to regulatory decisions on the safety of medicines or medicines classes.
How to check that a laboratory is allowed to buy ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
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