The British Veterinary Association this week called on the Veterinary Medicines Directorate to classify all anthelmintics as POM-V, meaning they could only be prescribed by a veterinary surgeon – and that the current entitlement given to 'Suitably Qualified Persons' would be withdrawn.
In effect, this reclassification would take anthelmintics off the shelves of the UK's farm merchants – a restriction on wormer supply that the National Farmers Union Scotland, for one, is not happy with.
(For the full story see The Scottish Farmer this week, February 9, 2013)
