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AgVetLink: Number 68, June 2008

Workload Update

Application numbers have remained steady this year after a record peak of applications from September - December 2007.

The agricultural chemical applications this year are up by 33% for the first six months of 2008, largely due to a spike of administrative applications in February. Veterinary medicine applications are also up by nearly a third, but the increased workload resulted from technical variations and new registrations over April/May. Currently there are no major hold-ups in processing applications, and we are generally maintaining timeframes.

As the financial year draws to a close it is an opportunity to take stock of the numbers of new products being registered. The totals in the box below cover the current ACVM financial year except for the last week of June. The overall application activity is up, and this trend is also reflected in the numbers of innovative and generic products receiving approval.

The veterinary medicine generic approvals are overstated due to the inclusion of 46 B3 applications. These are mainly animal feeds containing additives and other compounds that do not comply with the exemption from registration. With these removed from the picture, the numbers of new registrations for agricultural chemicals and veterinary medicines in New Zealand are similar.

New product approvals