POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS article
Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Humanities and Social Sciences
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1648556
Development of a Self-assessment/Benchmarking Tool for Regulators of Veterinary Medicines
Provisionally accepted
- 1Veterinary Medicines Directorate (United Kingdom), Surrey, United Kingdom
- 2Safe Medicines for Animals-regulatory training, London, United Kingdom
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The regulation of veterinary medicines is important for animal health and welfare, for human health, for sustainable food-production, and for minimising impacts on the environment. The capability to regulate these medicines is therefore also important, to provide confidence to stakeholders, particularly the public. Although there is a global benchmarking tool to assess the capability of regulatory bodies for human medicines, developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the veterinary regulatory sector does not have a similar global comprehensive scheme and associated guidance. Review of schemes that address veterinary medicines regulatory bodies was undertaken and compared to the WHO scheme to develop a proposed scheme for regulators of veterinary medicines. This new tool will provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to strengthening regulatory systems, fostering harmonisation, and ensuring the quality, safety and efficacy of veterinary medicinal products.
Keywords: Veterinary medicines, Self-Assessment, Benchmarking, Veterinary medicines regulation, National Regulatory Agency, VMPs
Received: 17 Jun 2025; Accepted: 31 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Joseph, Borriello, Eckford and Oyati. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Noel Joseph, Veterinary Medicines Directorate (United Kingdom), Surrey, United Kingdom
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