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Operational overview

The ACVM Group continues to have high workloads. As can be seen from the graph below, there is still a reasonable build up of applications in the system – the after effects of the huge influx of applications in June of this year, prior to the implementation of the ACVM Act.

Although the application queue is high, the Group is meeting prescreen and Decision Making Committee timeframes in most cases. This is based on a turn around deadline of 15 working days.

The ACVM Group has received very few veterinary medicine and plant compound applications submitted under the ACVM Act. Veterinary medicine and plant compound approvals as at 31 October are as follows:

Overall, the bulk of applications in the system are type Cs (changes to existing products). For the months of September and October, there were 48 animal remedy and 49 pesticide applications approved. In addition to this, 8 animal remedy A1/A2s and 11 pesticide A1/A2s were approved. Type B1 pesticide applications were high (there were 34) due to the discontinuation of dual trade name products. Registrants were required to submit single applications or cancel their products.

Website update

• Registration or licensing dates have now been included on the register of animal remedies and pesticides. Registers are updated fortnightly.
• There is a new section for compliance incidents – this includes the ACVM Group policy on how we will approach any reported incidents and a reporting format (see article on page 7).
• If you want to be advised by email of any new or updated documents on the website, make sure you ‘subscribe’ on the ACVM home page. The field for doing this is found in the bottom right of the screen.
• An up to date contacts list for all of the ACVM Group can be found at http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/acvm/about/who/index.htm .