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Medically Important Antimicrobials Poster (Feb 2018) – Canadian Animal Health Institute Cover letter for poster (Feb 2018)

Dr Betty Althouse recently received the Premiere’s Award for Excellence in recognition for her contributions to the province’s livestock industry. Dr Betty Althouse, the Chief Veterinary Officer with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture, was named as one of six recipients of the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Public Service. Click for video.

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

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

Recently there has been a rash of fake emails appearing to originate from the SVMA office that refer to unpaid invoices. The email address will look something like “svma@svma.sk.ca” <hua@panlink.com. The last part appears to be different in every email. These are spam emails. Please delete without opening any attachments. You can also forward the

The SVMA (SaskVets) will be having a tradeshow booth at Agribition this year. We are looking for volunteers at the booth for four-hour shifts during the week. Each volunteer will receive a day pass for Agribition, to be used for their volunteer date. There will be two people per shift. An SVMA staff member (Lorraine)

At the SVMA Annual General Meeting on September 8, 2017, members passed revisions to the Bylaws. Here is the updated document, which went into effect on that date. SVMA Bylaws 2017

News reports of late indicate that areas of drought in some parts of Saskatchewan are the worst in a 100 years. The drought this summer, combined with record setting temperatures and the impact both of these have had on pastures, hay and cereal crops, as well as surface water, will have an impact on large