Veterinary Products Committee

The relevant advisory committees with a remit for medicines for human use established under the Medicines Act 1968 were the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), set up in June 1970 (SI 1970/1257) under the Chairmanship of Professor EF Scowen and the British Pharmacopoeia Commission (BPC), also set up in June 1970 (SI 1970/1256) under the Chairmanship of Dr F Hartley (later Sir Frank Hartley). The Veterinary Products Committee (VPC), chaired by Professor CSG Grunsell (with a remit for... 

Advising on the establishment and membership of committees established under section 4 of the Medicines Act 1968. For example, the British Pharmacopoeia Commission (BPC) and Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) would be retained. 

The Licensing Authority is advised by expert committees, appointed by ministers, as advised by the Medicines Commission under Section 4 of the Medicines Act. These advisory committees consist of independent experts, such as hospital clinicians, general practitioners, pharmacists and clinical pharmacologists, not the staff of the DoH, and are appointed by ministers on the advice of the Medicines Commission. The relevant advisory committees since 1971 have been the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), the Committee on Review of Medicines (CRM), the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials (CDSM), the British Pharmacopoeia Commission (BPC) and the Veterinary Products Committee, which is administered through the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF). 

Regulatory data Deliberate experimental Mostly in rodents, rabbits, guinea pigs and dogs, sometimes in farm animals, occasionally in human volunteers. Metabolism and toxicology summarized by JMPR," JECFA, EFSA, EMA also government publications USEPA OPP fact sheets,- Annual reports of the UK Veterinary Products Committee, Advisory Committee on Pesticides Evaluation Documents ... 

Annual reports of the UK Veterinary Products Committee http //www.vpc.gov.uk/Public/reportsAR.html. 

R. M. Gaskell, G. Gettinby, S. J. Graham and D. Skilton, Veterinary Products Committee Working Group on feline and canine vaccination. Vet. Rec., 2002, 150, 126-134. 

Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Appraisal Panel for Human Suspected Adverse Reactions to Veterinary Medicines. Report to the Veterinary Products Committee of Appraisal Panel Meetings 1991-1992, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Addlestone, 1993. 

Veterinary Products Committee, Advice on the Use of Sheep Dips through Showers and Similar Equipment, VPC, February. Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Addlestone, 2001. 

Veterinary Products Committee (VPC), Appraisal Panel for Human Suspected Adverse Reactions to Veterinary Medicines. Report of Human Suspected Adverse Reactions Received by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate from 1985 2001 and Findings of the Appraisal Panel from Meetings in 2001, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Addlestone, 2002. K. N. Woodward, Veterinary Pharmacovigilance. Part 2. Veterinary pharmacovigilance in practice - the operation of a spontaneous reporting scheme in a European Union country - the UK, and schemes in other countries, J. Vet. Pharmacol. Ther., 2005, 28, 149-170. 

Veterinary Products Committee, Report of the Veterinary Products Committee to the Licensing Authority on Products with an OP as Active Ingredient (Other than Sheep Dips), VPC, June, 1999. 

Veterinary Products Committee, Report on Organophosphorus Sheep Dips, VPC, November, 1999. 

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