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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Information on BTV-3 vaccines including permits and licences.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
This registration service applies to products marketed under the exemption for small pet animals.
How a marketing authorisation holder should report a defect with a veterinary medicine.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
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