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Prescribing information on veterinary medicines
SPVS has produced a very helpful reference here on where you can find information on prescribing veterinary medicines with the help of a pharmacist, Andrea Tarr. It's mainly about products used "off label" under the cascade.
The document is worth reading and it also includes the following links to available resources for vets.
VMD Product Information Database.
eMC - electronic Medicines Compendium.
European Medicines Agency website for SPCs for licensed human medicines.
NOAH Compendium.
Vetstream
The Veterinary Formulary
The British National Formulary.
VMD Guidance note 13 on use of the cascade.
It also mentions the BSAVAs publications available to their members.
Andrea Tarr's summary is useful and well worth a read. In it she states, "...it is an offence to advertise a veterinary medicine if the advertisement is misleading or makes any medicinal claims not in the SPC". This is true but it would probably be helpful also to refer to VMD Guidance note no. 4 on advertising of medicines: It's also illegal to advertise a product not authorised for use in the UK, and illegal to advertise a POM(V) to the general public. And it gives VMD's definition of what is an advertisement as being "...any sort of activity that promotes a product."Tags: None
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#1Caroline Johnson commented24-10-2012, 12:07 PMEditing a commentSo that means that a client mailing about a POM-v is illegal..... Mmmmmm........
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