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Compliance - ACVM

The Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Group is responsible for monitoring the importation, manufacture, sale and use of agricultural compounds (plant compounds and veterinary medicines).

The compliance process aims to ensure these responsibilities are met and trade name products in the New Zealand marketplace comply with the registration requirements of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 (ACVM Act), and related legislation.

• Compliance Incident Report Form

Compliance Audit Summaries

These audits form part of the ACVM Group compliance programme of  "reality checks" or "slice of life" reviews.

The audits provide an assurance that "control of use" programmes are performing as expected. They also determine in broad terms where gaps in ACVM policy, standards and procedures might lead to a lower than desirable level of risk management under the Act, or where regulatory intervention is excessive.

Reality checks are not necessarily undertaken as a result of reported non-compliance but priority is likely to be given on the basis of identified concerns or of existing information gaps. Activity is carried out by the NZFSA Compliance and Investigation Group on behalf of the ACVM Group.

The output of such an audit will be a report and recommendations to the Director, ACVM Group with the response being incorporated into the work programme.

• Vertebrate Toxic Agents: Summary of the 2008 ‘Slice of Life’ Review
• Research, Testing and Teaching Organisations: Summary of Audit Report
• Summary of the recent 'slice of life' review of the oral nutritional compound sector which is regulated under the ACVM Act.
• Summary of Review Report: Prescription Animal Remedy Traders (Veterinarians
• Summary of Review Report:  Research, Teaching and Testing Organisations
• Summary of Audit Report - Use of Specified Antibiotics Within the Pork and Poultry Industries (July 2004)
• Summary of Audit Report - MAF Quarantine Service Clearance of Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (July 2004)
• Summary of Audit Report - Oral Nutritional Compounds (July 2004)
• Summary of Audit Report - Discretionary Use of Veterinary Medicines, Products Compounded by or for the Prescribing Veterinarian, and Pharmacy-only or Restricted Human Medicines (June 2004)