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How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
How authorised veterinary medicines, products supplied under the cascade and products used under the Veterinary Medicines Internal Market Scheme and Veterinary Medicines Health Situation Scheme can be advertised.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, how to obtain advice and report non-compliance.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Summary of product characteristics for Bultavo-3 BTV-3 vaccine in the UK
How a marketing authorisation holder should report a defect with a veterinary medicine.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Guidance on medicines for food and non-food horses and record keeping requirements including the horse passport.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
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.
List of words and phrases that will cause a veterinary product to be medicinal by presentation either through use or contextual use.
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 the production of mock-ups for assessment.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
Clarification for the interpretation of the new elements within the Veterinary Medicines Regulations (VMRs), as amended, relating to combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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