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What’s new on the website

• The ACVM homepage is undergoing a continuing upgrade process to make the site more user friendly. There is now a section entitled Determinations/ Registration/ Notification/Fees/ GRAS Information, which should make it easier to find the relevant information, forms, standards and guidelines, and fees information for applications and registrations of agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines.
  
  
• Also added to the home page (under the Registers & Lists section) is the register for Registered Veterinary Medicines and Plant Compounds – the ACVM database of currently registered veterinary medicines and plant compounds. Along with this register, this section also holds the registered pesticides and licensed animal remedies registers – the ACVM database of currently registered pesticides and currently licensed animal remedies respectively.
  
  
• There is a new section for import approval forms that can be found under the Publications/Forms section of the website, or at this site ( http://www.maf.govt.nz/acvm/publications/forms/import.htm ).
  
  
• There are two new labelling guides, one for Plant Compounds Requiring Registration, and one for Veterinary Medicines Requiring Registration. These can be found under Publications/Labelling Guides.
  
  
• Information relating to Notification under Regulation 7 of the ACVM Regulations, specifically relating to exempt products (under Schedule 3) that must be notified under these regulations, can be found under the Determinations/Registration/Notification/Fees/Gras Information section.
  
  
• A paper entitled Stratification of Class 1 Prescription Animal Remedies can be found on the web in either the Forums/AVMAC/ Papers section or the Antibiotic Resistance and in-Feed Use of Antibiotics in New Zealand subject page.
  
  
• The vertebrate pest control (VPC) frequently asked questions have been updated. These can be found in either the VPC section or the frequently asked questions section, which can be located easily by using the ‘V’ or ‘F’ on the site A-Z index.
  
  
• Variations to formulations of licensed animal remedies and registered pesticides (C1) information has been posted under the Determinations/Registration/ Notification/Fees/Gras Information section, specifically under the subheading entitled Information relating to preparing a variation application to an already registered pesticide and/or licensed animal remedy.
  
  
• Under the What’s New section of the website are two articles, one a media statement entitled Report provides useful benchmark: Minister, dealing with a report written by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.
  The other article is the report itself (Cost of Compliance – report to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry), which deals with assessing the effects of implementing both the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act and the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act (see related article on page 6).
  
  
• Under Other ACVM Related Publications on the MAF Website, found under the Publications/Other MAF section, are several new linkages to other MAF periodicals and newsletters. These include the following:
  
  Food Focus
  Quarterly newsletter of the MAF Food Assurance Authority – provides general information for the agriculture and seafood industries.
  
  Dairy Connection
  Quarterly newsletter informing key audiences about the issues and developments involved in the regulatory control of dairy products.
  
  APBulletin
  Animal Products Group newsletter
  
  Biosecurity
  Periodical that informs and consults on MAF Biosecurity Authority’s complete biosecurity and animal welfare programmes.
  
  Surveillance
  Periodical published on behalf of the Director Animal Biosecurity – an authoritative source of information on New Zealand’s animal health status.

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