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ACVM Glossary of Common Terms
Updated 18 November 2005
Advertisement
Any publication to the community or to any section of the community of any words, whether written, printed, spoken, or in any electronic form, or of any pictorial representation or design or device, used to promote the sale of any agricultural compound. ‘To advertise’ has a corresponding meaning.
Agricultural Compound
Any substance, mixture of substances, or biological compound, used or intended for use in the direct management of plants and animals, or to be applied to the land, place, or water on or in which the plants and animals are managed, for the purposes of:
a) Managing or eradicating pests, including vertebrate pests; or
b) Maintaining, promoting, or regulating plant or animal productivity and performance or reproduction; or
c) Fulfilling special nutritional requirements; or
d) The manipulation, capture, or immobilisation of animals; or
e) Diagnosing the condition of animals; or
f) Preventing or treating conditions of animals; or
g) Enhancing the effectiveness of an agricultural compound used for the treatment of plants and animals; or
h) Marking animals;
and includes any veterinary medicine, any substance, mixture of substances, or biological compound used for post-harvest pest control or disinfestation of raw primary produce, and any substance, mixture of substances, or biological compound declared to be an agricultural compound for the purpose of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997 by Order in Council.
Animal
Any living stage of any member of the animal kingdom except human beings. It also does not include invertebrates unless specified as in the case of honey bees.
Animal material
Any live or dead animal, or any tissue or other material taken or derived from an animal.
Approval
Means approval by the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Group of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.
Code of practice
Any document developed to specify the means by which parties meet the requirements in a standard. A code may be approved in accordance with section 28 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997, but does not have to be approved unless specified in the conditions of product registration or any product specific approval.
Compounding order
An instruction from a veterinarian to a manufacturer or contracted compounding pharmacist, detailing the formulation of a specially compounded medicinal preparation and any additional details on the method of compounding, packaging and labelling.
Control
To maintain full responsibility for and direction of the actions of others, and relates to the control of specified persons by persons approved or licensed by the ACVM Group to manufacture, trade in or use agricultural compounds or veterinary medicines.
Controlled copy
An operational or quality control reference document for which:
- responsibility for maintenance, updates, and changes will be undertaken by a
limited and defined group of people; and
- all changes and updates will be recorded in writing and maintained for audit.
Direct management
Direct management includes any treatment used on/in the animal or plant; or any treatment that will be in direct contact with the animal or plant; or any treatment where the animal remains in the water/on the land during the treatment period; or when the animals are reintroduced to the water or land and the agricultural compound is still present.
Dispensing
To supply agricultural compounds or veterinary medicines as per instructions specified in a purchase/supply order, compounding order, veterinary prescription or veterinary authorisation.
Label
Any written, pictorial, or other descriptive matter under which the trade name product is sold and which purports to give some information about the agricultural compound or veterinary medicine. Includes any information that must be provided with the product at the time it is supplied.
Label content
The intended written, pictorial, or other descriptive information that can be provided with a product because it is consistent with and not beyond or in excess of what is permissible under the current approval for that product. The label content must be approved by the ACVM Group.
Prescribing
The act of deciding and specifying the appropriate veterinary medicine and treatment regime.
Prescription
A documented instruction to an approved trader in veterinary medicines from a veterinarian specifying:
• a particular veterinary medicine;
• an animal or group of animals to be treated;
• a dosage and frequency; and
• instructions to be provided to the named person responsible for the animal(s) regarding warnings and/or associated care.
A prescription is required for the purchase of a registered PAR product by a person who is not a veterinarian. Only veterinarians may issue a prescription for a registered PAR product. A prescription may be issued for but is not required for the purchase of a veterinary medicine that is not a PAR product.
Prescription Animal Remedy (PAR) Veterinary Medicine
A veterinary medicine registered under the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997 with a condition limiting sale to:
• an approved trader in prescription animal remedies;
• a veterinarian currently registered under the Veterinarians Act 1994; or
• a person in possession of a relevant, bone fide veterinary prescription or authorisation from a veterinarian currently registered under the Veterinarians Act 1994.
Product Specific Approval
That part of an ACVM registration of an agricultural compound or veterinary medicine trade name product that specifies the particular use requirements for that product in regard to manufacture, importation, sale, establishing control, identifying treated plants or animals, avoiding violative residues, notifying purchasers or processors, etc.
Promotion
To encourage the sale of an agricultural compound or veterinary medicine trade name product by any means, including advertising.
Proprietary Trade Name Product
An agricultural compound or veterinary medicine marketed under and protected by a registered trade name.
Relabelling
To transfer the relevant label information (provided with the product before breaking down and repackaging) to the package or container in which the agricultural compound or veterinary medicine trade name product is supplied for use.
Sale
Includes barter, and also includes offering, exposing, or attempting to sell, or having in possession for sale, or sending or delivering for sale, or causing or allowing to be sold, offered, or exposed for sale; and also includes:
a) delivering or disposing of by way of gift, loan, or otherwise; and
b) giving or distributing, in the course of business, as a sample or otherwise, without charge.
‘General sale’ means to make available to the public at large.
Separating off portions of trade name product
To adjust the size, volume, number or weight of an agricultural compound trade name product and to place into an alternative package or container (should also have an alternative label).
Trade
Trade in agricultural compounds or veterinary medicine trade name products includes general sale and sale to specified/approved persons (wholesale and retail sales transactions as well as distribution, transport and storage). It also includes gifting or offering as samples as stated in the definition of sale.
Trader
Any person/corporate body/company who sells agricultural compounds or veterinary medicines. Traders can include, importers, product registrants, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers, veterinarians and agricultural consultants, if they carry out any of the activities listed in the definition of sale above.
Veterinarian
A person currently registered as a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinarians Act 1994.
Veterinary authorisation
A documented approval from a registered veterinarian to a person to purchase and hold particular PAR veterinary medicines in anticipation of:
• their incorporation into other products (e.g. animal feeds) to be used under prescription; or
• their use under operating instructions issued by a registered veterinarian.
Veterinary Consultation
In relation to the administration of or the prescribing of any PAR veterinary medicine by a veterinarian to, or in respect of, an animal means:
(i) an examination of that animal, which is an animal in the immediate care of that veterinarian; or
(ii) the obtaining by that veterinarian of sufficient information about that animal, which is an animal in the immediate care of that veterinarian, to enable that veterinarian to make an informed decision with respect to the administration or prescribing of a PAR veterinary medicine to, or in respect of, that animal.
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