Veterinary Medicines Directorate

  1. Product information database
  2. Veterinary medicines guidance
  3. Apply for product authorisations
  4. Apply for a special import
  5. Report an adverse event
  6. MAVIS
  7. Report a problem

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Online Services

News story

VMD web and telephone services will be unavailable from 01:00, 19 January to 08:00, 21 January

Web services, such as the Special Imports System, and the telephone service will be unavailable due to essential electrical maintenance.

VMD

News story

Veterinary Medicine Supply Problem: Isoflurane

Update 14 January: Products available for import under the Special Import Scheme whilst there are supply problems with isoflurane-containing veterinary medicines in the UK.

VMD People

News story

VMD: Civil Service People Survey 2018

This highlights report provides details of how the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) performed in the Civil Service People Survey.

Carprieve

News story

Carprieve Small Animal Injection – Product defect recall alert

Product Defect recall alert for Carprieve Small Animal Injection (Vm 02000/4229) by Norbrook Laboratories Ltd.

VARSS 2017

Research and analysis

Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance 2017

This report (UK VARSS) provides the details of UK veterinary antibiotic resistance and sales surveillance.

EU Exit

News story

Veterinary Medicines: Brexit ‘no deal’ Technical Notices

The third tranche of notices published on 24 September includes three notices on veterinary medicines.

Latest from Veterinary Medicines Directorate

  1. VMD web and telephone services will be unavailable from 01:00, 19 January to 08:00, 21 January
    • News story
  2. Veterinary Medicine Supply Problem: Isoflurane
    • News story
  3. Fees for applications concerning manufacturers and wholesalers
    • Guidance

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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.

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Announcements

  1. VMD web and telephone services will be unavailable from 01:00, 19 January to 08:00, 21 January
    • News story
  2. Veterinary Medicine Supply Problem: Isoflurane
    • News story
  3. See all announcements

Consultations

  1. Review of approach to issuing animal test certificates for veterinary medicines
    • Consultation outcome
  2. See all consultations

Publications

  1. Fees for applications concerning manufacturers and wholesalers
    • Guidance
  2. VMD FOI requests received between 1 July to 31 December 2018
    • FOI release
  3. See all publications

Statistics

  1. Residues of veterinary medicines in food: 2018
    • Official statistics
  2. VMD Published Standards 2018 to 2019: Monitoring Performance
    • Official statistics
  3. See all statistics

Our management

Professor Peter Borriello
Professor Peter Borriello
Chief Executive Officer, VMD
Paul Green
Paul Green
Director of Operations, VMD
Abigail Seager
Abigail Seager
Director of Authorisations, VMD
Julia Drown
Non-Executive Director, VMD
David Corner
Non-Executive Director, VMD
David Catlow
Non-Executive Director, VMD

Contact VMD

Office contact and enquiries

Veterinary Medicines Directorate
Woodham Lane
New Haw
Addlestone
Surrey
KT15 3LS
United Kingdom

Email

postmaster@vmd.defra.gsi.gov.uk

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

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.defra.gsi.gov.uk

Export Certificates

exportcert@vmd.defra.gsi.gov.uk

Batch Release

batchr@vmd.defra.gsi.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

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.

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