Veterinary Medicines Directorate
Medicines
Directorate
Featured
Detailed guide
Coronavirus (COVID-19) VMD News and Guidance
News and guidance on veterinary medicines issues affected by coronavirus (COVID-19).
News story
Availability of Lactating Cow Intramammary Antibiotics
Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) have informed the VMD of supply problems with the following lactating cow intramammary antibiotics.
News story
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - availability of veterinary medicines
Statement on the availability of veterinary medicines during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
News story
Launch of a new charity to improve veterinary medicines regulation worldwide
The launch of SMArt a new charity to improve the regulation of veterinary medicines worldwide.
News story
The VMD’s old GSI email address will no longer work from 1 April
From 1 April emails sent to the VMD’s old email address will no longer be re-directed to the current email address.
Latest from Veterinary Medicines Directorate
What Veterinary Medicines Directorate does
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) protects animal health, public health and the environment.
VMD is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
Follow us
Documents
Services
- Check if an animal medicine is licensed
- Report a suspected problem with an animal medicine or microchip
Guidance and regulation
See all guidance and regulationPolicy papers and consultations
- Defra group equality, diversity and inclusion strategy 2020 to 2024
- Review of approach to issuing animal test certificates for veterinary medicines
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Defra: gender pay gap report and data 2019
- VMD FOI requests received between 1 January and 30 June 2019
Our management
Contact VMD
Office contact and enquiries
Woodham Lane
New Haw
Addlestone
Surrey
KT15 3LS
United Kingdom
Switchboard (8.30am-5pm Mon-Thurs; 8.30am-4.30pm Fri)
01932 336911
Find us here (copy and paste link into your browser)
http://bit.ly/1VkuifV
We are currently a virtual office so please do not send post as it will not be opened for some time, contact postmaster if you have an enquiry.
Please do not use the postmaster email address to report an adverse event to a veterinary medicine; use the link at the top of the page 'Report an Adverse Event'
Special import, export and batch release
Import Certificates
importcert@vmd.gov.uk
Export Certificates
exportcert@vmd.gov.uk
Batch Release
batchr@vmd.gov.uk
The special import, export, and batch release schemes are all digital services run by a team that only deal with queries by email (please do not ring the VMD about matters in relation to any of these schemes)
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
Corporate information
Jobs and contracts
Read about the types of information we routinely publish in our Publication scheme. Our Personal information charter explains how we treat your personal information. Read our policy on Social media use.