{"id":64541,"date":"2015-11-24T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=73838d4fa4b9402a42581a42c13e81bb"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T10:25:51","slug":"news-story-closure-of-veterinary-residues-committee-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64541","title":{"rendered":"News story: Closure of Veterinary Residues Committee business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Additional note regarding phenylbutazone<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Committee\u2019s business has now been concluded and the following documents are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the VRC\u2019s <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1327137\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/480967\/_882136-v2-VRC_Annual_Report_2014_-_AGREED.pdf\">Annual Report for 2014<\/a><br \/>\n(<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">1.7MB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">5 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>the table setting out the criteria used for their <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1327138\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/479093\/_538422-v7-Matrix_Ranking_criteria_and_scoring.pdf\">Matrix Ranking<\/a><br \/>\n(<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">338KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">1 page<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span> system and their <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1327140\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/479170\/_394650-v16-Compendium_of_Substances.pdf\">Compendium of ranked substances<\/a><br \/>\n(<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">461KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">63 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>, including at the end, the \u2018league table\u2019 rankings<\/li>\n<li>the <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1327139\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/479095\/_676269-v5-VRC_Position_paper_-_Flukicides.pdf\">VRC position paper on the use of flukicides<\/a><br \/>\n(<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">177KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">6 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also access the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/20140909095303\/http:\/vmd.defra.gov.uk\/vrc\/\">VRC\u2019s earlier papers<\/a>, including all of their previous Annual Reports and position papers on residues in honey, antimicrobial residues in calves, and Antimicrobial Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>As a postscript to their position paper on phenylbutazone in horses the Committee reviewed and supported the conclusions of the joint review by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA); that the low likelihood of exposure and overall low likelihood of adverse effects means the reported presence of phenylbutazone in horses is of low concern to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Any enquiries should be directed to <a href=\"mailto:residues@vmd.defra.gsi.gov.uk\">residues@vmd.defra.gsi.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disbanding of the Veterinary Residues Committee (VRC) following a review by Defra was announced in the January 2015 edition of MAVIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65447,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541\/revisions\/65447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}