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AgVetLink, October 2004

What’s coming up

• Debbie Morris and John Reeve will attend the meeting of the Codex Committee of Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Food (CCRVDF) in Washington in late October. Dr Bill Jolly will present a paper (draft revised guidelines for the establishment of a regulatory programme for the control of veterinary drugs in foods) to the meeting. The major focus of the paper is to steer countries towards the use of risk assessment in the decision-making process if a country finds foods with residues that exceed their regulatory limits rather than an automatic rejection of the food from their market.

• Debbie Morris, Director of the ACVM Group, will attend the meeting of the VICH Steering Group being held in Berlin in October.

• The next meetings of AVMAC and the ACVM Industry Liaison Group will be held in Wellington on 18 November 2004.

• The results of the ACVM Group Customer Survey, which was included in the August issue of AgVetLink, will be available on the website by the end of October. Forty-eight responses were received, and the ACVM Group would like to thank those who took the time to provide this valuable feedback.

The ACVM Group intends to hold workshops for registrants at the end of October or early November. Any items of concern from the customer survey (see above) will be covered, but the ACVM Group would appreciate feedback from registrants on what topics they would like on the agenda. Contact Maree Zinzley with your requests: phone 04 463 2564 or email maree.zinzley@nzfsa.govt.nz