• Drinking water guidelines – pesticides

    The current (2011, updated August 2018) Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG) were prepared by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and National Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC). They contain:

  • Contract manufacture

    Some manufacturers decide to subcontract particular steps of the veterinary chemical manufacturing process to other manufacturers – including laboratories.

    This is often the case when a manufacturer has limited or no expertise in a particular…

  • Applying for a label approval

    From 1 January 2015 the distinguishing name for a product no longer has to be the name that appears on the product container label (also known as the marketed product label or MPL).

  • Crop grouping: representative crops and extrapolation principles for risk assessment and data waivers

    The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has published a list of crop groups and their individual members and an associated guidance document on the use of crop grouping in regulatory risk assessments titled representative…

  • Representative crops and extrapolation principles for risk assessment and data waivers

    As part of the Australian Government’s commitment to improved access to agricultural and veterinary chemicals, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has developed Australian crop groups. Crop grouping schemes, once…

  • Active constituents

    Active constituents are the substance(s) in an agricultural or veterinary chemical product that are primarily responsible for a product's biological or other effects. With limited exceptions, each source (manufacturing site) of an active constituent…

  • Approval of active constituents

    The following information is derived from section 14 and section 14A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (Agvet Code).

    Agricultural and veterinary chemical products are often complex mixtures of active constituents, solvents,…

  • General list of impurities and classes of impurities of toxicological concern for agricultural active constituents

    The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has overall responsibility for the regulation of active constituents used in agricultural and veterinary chemical products.

    In particular, the APVMA is required to separately…

  • Exemptions

    The APVMA has the power to exempt substances, active constituents, chemical products, or certain activities from offence and civil penalty provisions.

    Under the Agvet Code, you can not apply for an exemption—only the APVMA can issue an…

  • Collaborative and international assessments, including work-sharing

    The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) collaborates internationally to assess specific applications, and we may use international assessment reports in work-sharing arrangements to support independent national risk…