The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7173 p667-671
10 November 2001

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Britain to fight Europe over animal medicines

Britain is to fight a European Commission proposal to make all veterinary medicines for food-producing animals available only on prescription. The Government has instructed officials involved in negotiations over the proposal to try to make it reflect national differences in the distribution of animal medicines.

The reclassification proposal is a component part of a much wider set of EC proposals to change procedures for authorising and controlling both human and veterinary medicines in the European Union.

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