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Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Results of our 2024 pharmaceutical industry customer survey carried out by an independent party.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Veterinary products seized during an FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) Operation.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to complain about the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's services.
Change to the information provided on adverse events in the Summary of Product Characteristics for Propalin Syrup, 40 mg/ml Dogs.
How to register veterinary practice premises for veterinary surgeons to supply veterinary medicines.
Explainer for the pharmaceutical industry on the implementation of Pharmacovigilance requirements during the transition time from the date the revised VMR have effect in GB to 17 May 2027.
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Non-UK authorised medicine seized at East Midlands Airport.
Explainer for businesses and persons regulated by the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, as amended, on the transitional provisions included in the amending legislation: the Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulati…
Check if an online retailer that sells pet medicines is on the Veterinary Medicines Directorate’s accredited internet retailer scheme (AIRS)
Guidance and application forms for Marketing Authorisations, Animal Test Certificates, Veterinary Homeopathic Remedy, Export and Import certificates, Batch release and Batch control.
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