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AgVetLink October 2003

What’s coming up

• The next meeting of the VICH Steering Committee is being held in Washington, 6-8 October. In addition to hearing progress reports from each of the active working groups, the Steering Committee will review the future strategy of VICH and the proposed workplan. The agenda also includes review concept papers on new topics including a revision of guidelines 10 and 11. See the website ( http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/policy-law/vich/index.htm ) for details of all the VICH guidelines, metabolism and residue kinetics, and stability in veterinary vaccines.
• The draft revision of the ACVM Group Operational Policy on Compliance has been put on the website; consultation is open until 15 October 2003. This draft was presented to AVMAC at the 22 May meeting along with a background explanatory paper (both available at http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/acvm/publications/discussion/operational-policies/index.htm ) for initial consultation and discussion.
• John Reeve, NZFSA Programme Manager (Toxicology and Residues), is to present a poster on the ACVM Group’s ‘Third Party’ registration scheme that has been designed to deal with ‘off-label’ uses of registered pesticides on minor crops in a robust and transparent manner. The poster has been accepted for presentation to an international conference being organised by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Korean Society of Pesticide Science. The conference will be held in Seoul, 13-16 October 2003. The poster will also form the basis of the New Zealand presentation to the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Workshop to be held in Canberra on 4 November 2003.
• The next AVMAC meeting is planned to be held on 20 November 2003 in Wellington.