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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.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
British Pharmacopoeia (BP) provides official standards for pharmaceutical substances and medicinal products. British Pharmacopoeia Commission is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care .
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 of mock-ups for assessment.
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