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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
List of substances recognised as medicinal by function.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
List of words and phrases that will cause a veterinary product to be medicinal by presentation either through use or contextual use.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for and maintain a shared-label for use on veterinary medicines placed on the market in the UK and Ireland.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
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