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AgVetLink: Number 53, December 2005

Standards Update

Standard for Unregistered Veterinary Medicines Requiring Veterinary Overview

The consultation period on the draft Standard for Unregistered Veterinary Medicines Requiring Veterinary Overview has closed.

The ACVM Group received two formal submissions and had informal discussions with other parties. Most of the draft standard had gone through a previous consultation, but the section on compounding products was significantly different from the earlier draft.

One of the submissions received questioned the need for the standard, and the other submission raised several specific issues relating to areas such as alignment with VCNZ requirements, determination of ‘suitably qualified to compound’ veterinarians, and the mechanism for approving the sale of human medicines as specified in the Medicines Act.

These issues have been considered, and the standard will be issued as soon as a few areas have been resolved. The complete ACVM Group response to the submissions is available on the website.