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Imported Farmed Fish Survey
Published
Results of the Brand Naming Survey of
Dyes, Tetracyclines, Nitrofurans, Chloramphenicol,
Florfenicol, Antimicrobials and Quinolones in Imported
Farmed Fish
All 104 samples were compliant, showing no evidence
of the use of these substances.
The full report is available here.
Membership of the independent Veterinary Residues
Committee
In early
September, we expect a recruitment exercise to begin to
replace three independent Members of the Veterinary
Residues Committee, whose current terms of Office will
come to the end on 31 December. We hope the new Members
will be in place from 1 January
2011. They would provide the Committee
with expertise in:
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Analytical chemistry
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Consumer affairs
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Large animal veterinary
practice
If you would
like more information, wish to be considered or wish to
nominate someone for any of these posts,
please e-mail:
c.bennett@vmd.defra.gsi.gov.uk or phone:
01932 338490
Veterinary Residues Committee’s 7th
Open Meeting – Wednesday 13 October, 2010 at
the National Railway Museum, in
York
The Veterinary
Residues Committee (VRC) invites you its 7th
Open Meeting.
The VRC wants
to make opportunities to hear your views on aspects of
its work. To help this, VRC decided it should hold its
Open Meetings at different locations round the UK. This
is its opportunity to hear, particularly, the views of
consumers and others in Yorkshire and surrounding
counties.
More
details can be found here.
Agenda
can be found here
You can apply for a
ticket here. (Microsoft Word form)
The VRC Website has moved
This website has
moved to the website of the Veterinary Medicines
Directorate. This is part of a Government initiative to
reduce the number of domain names it supports and pays
for.
The content and
look of the VRC section will not be affected. It will
continue to be under the oversight of the Veterinary
Residues Committee.
If you have the
old site stored as a favourite, please change this to
the address for the new site:
http://www.vmd.gov.uk/vrc
The papers for
the VRC meeting held on 23 June
2010
are available on the website.
The VRC
accepts the ‘Principles for engagement between
Government and its Independent Scientific Advisers’
Independent
scientific advice is important to the Government. To try
to ensure it has the best possible advice, there must be
an effective relationship between Ministers and the
independent experts that advise them.
Lord Drayson,
the then Minister for Science and Innovation and sir
John Beddington
the Government’s chief scientific advisor published the
principles on 24 March 2010 following consultation. The VRC considered them
at its meeting on 23 June 201. It thinks that they set
out a workable framework for engagement between
Government and its Independent Scientific Advisers.
The papers and minutes of the
VRC meeting held on 10 March
2010
are now available on the website.
The minutes
of the VRC meeting held on 2 December are now
available on the website. The Minutes describe the
VRC’s Annual Horizon Scanning meeting where the
Committee discussed what issues it might need to address
in the coming year.
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