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Standards & Guidelines relating to good veterinary practice, adverse event reporting, and other useful information relevant to veterinarians.

Issues and Updates

Information relating to current and ongoing issues relating to veterinary medicines.

• Antibiotic Resistance and In-Feed Use of Antibiotics in New Zealand

Residues and Withholding Period Information

Documents relating to the use of veterinary medicines in food producing animals, including default WHPs and prohibited substance information.

• Default withholding periods
• Prohibited Substances
• Phenylbutazone Use In Horses - Advice For Veterinarians

Veterinary Medicine Importation, Sale and Use

Information relating to veterinarian specific requirements when importing, selling or using veterinary medicines.

• Adverse Event Report
• Approved Traders of PAR Products
• Determining if a Trade Name Product is an Agricultural Compound (Veterinary Medicine-Plant Compound)
• Import Policy and Import Approval Forms
• Search the database for currently registered veterinary medicines
• Registration conditions
• ACVM Standard for Unregistered Veterinary Medicines Requiring Veterinary Overview
• ACVM Operational Procedures Standard 1: The Use of Veterinary and Human Medicines by non-Veterinarians for Research, Testing and Teaching Purposes
• ACVM Operational Procedures Standard 2: The Use of Veterinary and Human Medicines by non-Veterinarians Generally
• ACVM Standard for Prescription Animal Remedy Veterinary Medicines

Presentations and Publications

Copies of ACVM presentation slides and publications of particular relevance to veterinarians.

• ACVM Workshops for Vets - April 2005
• AgVetLink special issues for veterinarians

Factsheets

Information documents covering issues specific to veterinarians.

• Adverse Event Reporting Is Important!
• Consultation on administration of the ACVM Act
• ‘Recognised person’ is a new management concept under the ACVM Act
• Restricted products may be sold only by recognised/approved traders
• Veterinary authorisation needed for restricted veterinary medicines