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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
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.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
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