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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.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
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.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Summary of product characteristics for Bultavo-3 BTV-3 vaccine 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.
Advisory note from the UK Chief Veterinary Officer for veterinarians prescribing BTV-3 vaccines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
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.
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