China - Ministry of Agriculture makes overall arrangements on veterinary drug control

http://english.agri.gov.cn/ga/news/201103/t20110310_2666.htm

11-Mar-2011 (15 years 2 months 28 days ago)
On 21-22 Feb. 2011, the Bureau of Veterinary of the Ministry of Agriculture held a national meeting on veterinary drug control in Xiamen, Fujian. It was stated at the meeting that the work on veterinary drug control should be guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, focused on the targets of “two maintains and two ensures” and based on the principle of ensuring quality, supply and safety, and efforts should be made to push forward development of related legal systems, improve the regulation mechanisms, identify responsibilities in the regulation system, regulate the veterinary drug market order, upgrade the quality of veterinary drugs and level of safe drug use, and thus ensure effective prevention and control of animal diseases and quality and safety of animal products.  

It was put forward at the meeting that veterinary authorities at all levels should focus on the following aspects: i) specialized program on quality and safety of veterinary drugs; ii) implementation of GSP in the veterinary drug sector; iii) monitoring of veterinary drug residues; iv) integrated law enforcement for veterinary drug control; v) law-based administration; vi) publicity and education; and vii) development of legal systems for the veterinary drug sector.