Veterinary Medicines Regulations
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The Veterinary Medicines Regulations are a set of UK laws that govern the authorization, manufacture, distribution, and use of veterinary medicinal products to ensure animal health, public safety, and environmental protection.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Veterinary Medicines Regulations canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1339730 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veterinary Medicines Regulations Context triple: [Veterinary Medicines Directorate, oversees, Veterinary Medicines Regulations]
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A.
Veterinary Medicines Directorate
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is a UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and ensuring their safety, quality, and effectiveness in animals and the food chain.
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B.
Animal Health Protection Act
The Animal Health Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that grants broad authority to prevent, control, and eradicate diseases and pests affecting livestock and other animals to protect agriculture and public health.
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C.
Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use is the European Medicines Agency’s scientific committee responsible for evaluating and providing opinions on veterinary medicines in the European Union.
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D.
Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Veterinary
The Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Veterinary (CMDv) is a European regulatory body that coordinates and harmonises the assessment and approval of veterinary medicines across EU member states under mutual recognition and decentralised procedures.
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E.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act is a U.S. law that regulates the registration, distribution, sale, and use of pesticides to protect human health and the environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veterinary Medicines Regulations Target entity description: The Veterinary Medicines Regulations are a set of UK laws that govern the authorization, manufacture, distribution, and use of veterinary medicinal products to ensure animal health, public safety, and environmental protection.
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A.
Veterinary Medicines Directorate
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is a UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and ensuring their safety, quality, and effectiveness in animals and the food chain.
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B.
Animal Health Protection Act
The Animal Health Protection Act is a U.S. federal law that grants broad authority to prevent, control, and eradicate diseases and pests affecting livestock and other animals to protect agriculture and public health.
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C.
Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use is the European Medicines Agency’s scientific committee responsible for evaluating and providing opinions on veterinary medicines in the European Union.
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D.
Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Veterinary
The Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Veterinary (CMDv) is a European regulatory body that coordinates and harmonises the assessment and approval of veterinary medicines across EU member states under mutual recognition and decentralised procedures.
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E.
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act is a U.S. law that regulates the registration, distribution, sale, and use of pesticides to protect human health and the environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Kingdom secondary legislation
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statutory instrument ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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surface form:
Secretary of State responsible for environment, food and rural affairs
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| aimsTo |
protect animal health
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protect public health ⓘ protect the environment ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
manufacturers of veterinary medicines
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pharmacists ⓘ retailers of veterinary medicines ⓘ suitably qualified persons ⓘ veterinary surgeons ⓘ wholesalers of veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| basedOn | European Union veterinary medicines legislation ⓘ |
| concerns |
antimicrobial resistance control through veterinary medicine use
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food safety in relation to veterinary drug residues ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Veterinary Medicines Directorate ⓘ |
| hasPart |
provisions on classification of veterinary medicines
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provisions on import and export of veterinary medicines ⓘ provisions on prescribing and dispensing veterinary medicines ⓘ provisions on storage and disposal of veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Great Britain
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Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalBasisFor | enforcement of controls on veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| legalForm | regulations ⓘ |
| providesFor |
inspection powers for enforcement authorities
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offences relating to unauthorised veterinary medicines ⓘ penalties for non-compliance ⓘ |
| regulates |
authorization of veterinary medicines
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distribution of veterinary medicines ⓘ manufacture of veterinary medicines ⓘ supply of veterinary medicines ⓘ use of veterinary medicines ⓘ veterinary medicinal products ⓘ |
| replaced | earlier UK legislation on veterinary medicinal products ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
animal health law
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public health protection law ⓘ veterinary medicine law ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
advertising controls for veterinary medicines
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controls on medicated feed ⓘ controls on residues of veterinary medicines in food-producing animals ⓘ controls on veterinary immunological products ⓘ labelling requirements for veterinary medicines ⓘ marketing authorisation requirements for veterinary medicines ⓘ pharmacovigilance requirements for veterinary medicines ⓘ record-keeping requirements for veterinary medicines ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Veterinary Medicines Regulations Description of subject: The Veterinary Medicines Regulations are a set of UK laws that govern the authorization, manufacture, distribution, and use of veterinary medicinal products to ensure animal health, public safety, and environmental protection.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.