Month: October 2017
Personal use importation restriction time lines
From CVMA: The Government of Canada through Health Canada is restricting personal importation (also known as own use importation) of veterinary drugs for food-producing animals or animals intended to be consumed as food (including horses). The restrictions on importation for personal use will begin when the regulations come into effect on November 13, 2017. This …
Timelines for moving MIAs to PDL released
From CVMA: Health Canada is moving a number of Medically Important Antimicrobials (MIAs) approved for veterinary use before 2004 to the Prescription Drug List (PDL). With this change, Health Canada will establish the same level of oversight for those MIAs approved before 2004 as for those approved after. As of December 1, 2018, all MIAs …