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Compliance

8 Surveillance

Surveillance information is used to drive reviews of policy and the development and review of ACVM requirements, performance standards, conditions etc. The information provides a key element in the modification of overall regulatory control. In addition, surveillance information may be used for the non-regulatory modification of practices or processes by agreement between the ACVM Group and industry where this might be the appropriate course to follow.

Surveillance is about the receipt and evaluation of information and intelligence from a variety of sources. Information is collated in a way that enables decisions to be taken on the appropriate response (if any) required. Surveillance may be undertaken either in isolation of any regular or short- term monitoring programme, or addition to monitoring programmes to address specific concerns.

The ACVM Group has a number of sources of surveillance information including:

• Complaints and concerns advised by the public, industry stakeholders or other regulatory bodies

• Information from NZFSA programmes, which includes the residue monitoring programmes for meat, poultry, honey, dairy, feral game, etc as well as the monitoring programmes run under the science strategy

• Information from MAFBNZ and Animal Welfare Groups

• Information from other regulatory bodies in New Zealand such as the Ministry of Health, MedSafe, Veterinary Council of New Zealand, ERMA New Zealand etc

• Information from the regulatory authorities in other countries (such as residue violations or information sharing about compliance violations such as in the Pan Pharmaceuticals incident)

• Information from ACVM programmes including adverse event reporting (AER), ‘slice of life’ reviews and reporting from MAFBNZ at the border

• Information from inspections and audits or from pre-approval checks.