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Information on BTV-3 vaccines for keepers and vets, including rules for reporting vaccinations and keeping records.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Information to help answer your query and how to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Advisory note from the UK Chief Veterinary Officer for veterinarians prescribing BTV-3 vaccines.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers, Veterinary Professionals and Wholesalers.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
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.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
Summary of product characteristics for Bultavo-3 BTV-3 vaccine in the UK
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
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