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Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
List of words and phrases that will cause a veterinary product to be medicinal by presentation either through use or contextual use.
Things to consider when buying and using products.
Criteria applied by the VMD for accepting and agreeing the invented name of veterinary medicinal products.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
How a marketing authorisation holder should report a defect with a veterinary medicine.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
How the MHRA makes decisions on whether a borderline product is a medical device and which risk class should apply.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
The rules about product labelling - including special rules for retailers and manufacturers in different business sectors (like food, jewellery and toys)
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