Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Routine update to adverse event data for L2 and L4 dog vaccines, and reminder for vets to tailor vaccination programmes for individual animals.

First Inspections and Enforcement report, covering October and November 2025, providing animal owners, vet practices and other animal health businesses messages on how to remain compliant with the law.

VMD in-depth assessment confirms continued positive benefit-risk balance for Librela.

Welcome to the first post in our new series, ‘VMD Voices: Our Experts Explain’. In this series, you’ll hear from specialists across the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), from scientists and vets to enforcement and intelligence officers.

Businesses advertising non-medicinal veterinary products to benefit from updated guidance on marketing non-medicinal veterinary products legally.

VMD has published webinars to help veterinary professionals, wholesalers and retailers prepare for changes to the supply of veterinary medicines into Northern Ireland.