24.05.2017

Health Canada announced new rules for veterinary drugs that will better protect Canadians against Antimicrobial resistance (AMR); 
Changes to the Food and Drug Regulations include:
Restricting the personal importation of certain veterinary drugs for food-producing animals;
Requiring companies to follow stricter guidelines to ensure the quality of their active pharmaceutical ingredients;
Requiring manufacturers, importers and compounders of veterinary drugs to report annual sales of medically important antimicrobial drugs to Health Canada to enable better surveillance;
Introducing a more flexible and risk-appropriate framework to make importation simpler for low-risk veterinary health products, including products that may be used as alternatives to antimicrobial drugs.
These changes complement other ongoing initiatives, such as collaborating with provincial and territorial health authorities, the pharmaceutical industry, veterinarians, food animal producers and other stakeholders to promote the prudent use of antimicrobial drugs in animals.