Catalogue description Veterinary Products Committee Website

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This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation's presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

The Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) was established in 1970 under section 4 of the Medicines Act 1968 (the Act). The VPC took over from the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and other Toxic Chemicals which had, up until then, been responsible for advising the Health and Agriculture Ministers on the administration of the voluntary Veterinary Products Safety Precautions Scheme (VPSPS), which had been established in 1964 for the scrutiny of veterinary medicines. The VPC offers advice to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) on behalf of the Secretary of State, in respect of new and renewal Marketing Authorisations (MAs), Provisional MAs, variations to MAs and Animal Test Certificates (ATCs). The VPC also considers appeals when the Secretary of State intends to suspend a MA on the grounds of safety, quality or efficacy.