Hervé asked:
'I wonder how those
who obtained official approval in their countries get
out of this kind of process. Is their approval system
different ?'

In the UK companies have to 'jump through hoops' in order to gain approval
for 'veterinary medicines' such as Apistan, Bayvarol etc. and this requires
a considerable amount of time, effort and money to produce all the required
data.

So, as Hervé said, it was clear that no private corporation was going to be
interested in such investment because the product is cheap and widely
available.  We wondered if we would ever be able to use these alternative
treatments that seemed to be working well, particularly in the Scandinavian
countries.

Then came the surprise.  Our government decided that if these products were
not defined as 'veterinary medicines' they would not require approval, so
they defined them as 'non-medicinal curative substances'!

We were, frankly, amazed - and delighted!  Common sense 1 - Red tape 0.

Peter Edwards
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