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AgVetLink: Number 52, October 2005

Approval of VTA traders

The ACVM Group has started to implement the programme for approval of VTA traders. A package of information and application form has been sent to all known single site retailing outlets and corporate multi-branch retailers of the products. The ACVM Group proposes to inspect and approve all single site operated retail outlets individually. For large multi-branch organisations retailing nationally, it is proposed to inspect and approve the quality system of the organisation that manages the control of sale of VTAs through its branches as a single multi-branch approval.

All VTA retailers that respond by 1 November 2005 will be provided with conditional ACVM approval as a VTA trader. The conditional approval will then be converted into a full approval when the site or quality system, as appropriate, has been inspected for compliance with the ACVM Standard for Vertebrate Toxic Agents.