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AgVetLink, October 2004

STANDARDS

Vertebrate toxic agents (VTAs)

Following the consultation on version 4 of the ACVM Standard for Vertebrate Toxic Agents, a round of consultation on conditions to be imposed on VTAs has been taking place.

Registrants, submitters and other parties who expressed interest were sent a package of documents (version 4 of the draft standard, the summary of submissions, conditions in principle, and possible conditions on individual products) for their comment. Deadline for these submissions was 20 September 2004, and the ACVM Group is working through the responses.

Further consultation will take place as development of the standard and conditions progresses.

Unregistered veterinary medicines

Submissions and other consultation on the ACVM Draft Standard for the Management of Unregistered Veterinary Medicines Requiring Veterinary Overview have highlighted the complex issue of compounding.

AVMAC has established a working party to develop appropriate requirements for compounding veterinary medicines and to consider whether there should be requirements for compounding plant compounds.

In a separate but related issue, the AVMAC working party and the ACVM Group will be considering appropriate requirements for decanting and ‘breaking down’ registered products.

Fertilisers

Two submissions on the ACVM Draft Standard for the Fertiliser Group of Agricultural Compounds were received. Both generally accepted the standard with some suggestions for improvement.

However, the issue of raw and composted biological wastes is being considered in a wider forum with a working group commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment considering the development of a national environmental standard for biosolids. The ACVM Group does not intend to progress the standard for the fertiliser group of agricultural compounds until the outcome on biosolids is known. At that time (early-mid 2005), an AVMAC working party will review requirements for the fertiliser group of agricultural compounds.

Prescription animal remedy veterinary medicines

A clarification of the advertising section of this standard has been made. See article on page 6 for details.