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CVMA Partners with Agricultural Stakeholders to Improve Access to Veterinary Healthcare Tools
January 8, 2025
The Canadian Veterinary Medica Association (CVMA) is working in partnership with 15 national stakeholders from across the agricultural sector to improve access to veterinary pharmaceuticals, veterinary health products, livestock feeds, and veterinary biologics.
The CVMA, along with other interested parties representing Canada's livestock farmers and veterinary product manufacturers, has signed a white paper indicating that farmers and veterinarians urgently need increased access to a wide range of tools that will prevent and control illness and promote the health and well-being of animals in order to effectively contribute to a One Health approach.
Canadian farmers’ and veterinarians’ access to such tools is at a crisis point, which is compounded by the fact that the number of currently approved and available tools is eroding at a significant rate. The result is that Canadian farmers and veterinarians are forced to rely on an increasingly limited number of tools – many of which are also important in human medicine. Not only does this have implications for animal and human health, it also places Canada at a competitive disadvantage compared to other countries who have access to such tools.
The white paper offers a number of solutions designed to help improve access to critical veterinary tools, which, in turn, will better position Canadian farmers and veterinarians to play their part in a One Health approach.
Some of the numerous proposed solutions include harmonizing requirements and inspections of manufacturing facilities for veterinary pharmaceuticals with trusted jurisdictions to reduce costs and reducing approval costs by accepting veterinary pharmaceuticals already approved by trusted regulatory authorities licensed in other jurisdictions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand.
Read the complete white paper here.