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The National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) represents the UK animal medicines industry: its aim is to promote the benefits of safe, effective, quality medicines for the health and welfare of all animals.

NOAH Conference 'Feeding the World' - save the date - 15 February 2011


It's a dog's life for Chloe as she triumphs in national awards
A dog that overcame severe behavioural difficulties has been recognised for her inspirational change in behaviour with a national award.

Chloe, a Collie-cross from Alton, won the £1000 prize in The Pet Factor, a competition launched by NOAH to find pets who had amazing stories of bravery, companionship and survival.

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The Pet Health Information website features a wealth of animal health information and advice to help owners and potential owners to make informed decisions about their pets’ healthcare. With a wide range of topics including information on buying a pet, health guides, travelling abroad with your pet and first aid, the site features information on a range of species from dogs through to fish.

2009 top NOAH sales rep students announced
The names of the three top students from NOAH member companies who sat the Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority (AMTRA) examinations for sales representatives of marketing authorisation holders (MAH) during 2009 were unveiled at the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) annual dinner held at One Whitehall Place, London, on April 21st.

The overall winner was Emma Southgate from Novartis Animal Health, while Melanie Read of Boehringer Ingelheim was runner up with Mary Else, also from Novartis, in 3rd


Winner Emma Southgate from Novartis Animal Health


Runner up Melanie Read from Boehringer Ingelheim

Speaking at the certificate presentation, NOAH’s new chairman Bob Parmenter congratulated the winners and said: “Over the years AMTRA has operated two levels of examination – one for SQPs and one for the representatives of our own industry. We have been aware for some time that there is confusion about which qualification is relevant to which person – indeed, that there are two different qualifications.

“To help clarify things, NOAH is planning to relaunch the second of those qualifications as the ‘NOAH Certificate of Animal Health’."
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National Pet Month

National Pet Month took place from 3 April - 3 May 2010.

Catch up with what went on this year on the National Pet Month website www.nationalpetmonth.org.uk, tell National Pet Month all about how you got on, or even start preparing for next year!


2009 Best National Pet Month Event Award being presented to the owners and staff of the Frome Pet and Aquatic Centre by  NOAH chief executive Phil Sketchley, third from right, Chairman of National Pet Month.

 Antibiotics for Animals
Animals, just like humans, can suffer from disease. Healthy animals mean healthy food. NOAH believes it would be a rejection of our responsibility towards the production of healthy food to deny animals access to medicines which keep them healthy. Animals need antibiotics too.
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Jobs and Vacancies in the Animal Health Industry
From time to time, this website publishes details of jobs and vacancies in the animal medicines industry.
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Promotion of antimicrobials to farmers
Antibiotics are essential for the health and welfare of the UK’s livestock population. NOAH accepts that antimicrobial resistance is a serious and growing subject of discussion for the medical and veterinary professions. Clearly the collective industry i.e. animal medicine companies, the veterinary profession and farmers need to continue to take the matter seriously.

We appreciate the fact that the VMD recognises the role that responsible promotion plays in ‘knowledge transfer’ to farmers. NOAH does not believe that the banning of advertising of antimicrobials to farmers, proposed in the draft Veterinary Medicines regulations 2010, will reduce resistance profiles
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21st edition of the NOAH Code of Practice for the Promotion of Animal Medicines now available!

2010 edition of the NOAH compendium - special offer!
The 2010 edition of the NOAH Compendium of Data Sheets for Animal Medicines is an essential information source containing the full data sheets/SPCs for products from 33 companies. It includes colour-coded indexes for easier reference, a guide to the cascade, and the up-to-date edition of NOAH’s Code of Practice for the Promotion of Animal Medicines.

Now available at a special reduced rate of £19.75 (rrp £39.50)
 

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VLA and GVS/AGV National Conference 22-24 September, University of Warwick

A joint veterinary conference is being organised by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA), the Government Veterinary Surgeons (GVS), and the Association of Government Veterinarians (AGV), with involvement from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD).
Topics include:
-Antimicrobial resistance (organised jointly with the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy).
-Infection management (co-organised with the Veterinary Medicines Directorate).
-Food-borne zoonoses (co-organised with the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency)
-New diagnostic technology and connectivity (co-organised with the Technology Strategy Board).
-Animal health and welfare.
-Surveillance.
-Cellular and sub-cellular modelling.
-Differential diagnosis of notifiable diseases.
-Case reviews.
For more details contact VLA Events Unit
Telephone: 01932 357730
Email: events@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/vla/news/new_conf_vla2010.htm

NOAH's chairman for 2010
Bob Parmenter has been elected as the Chairman of NOAH (National Office of Animal Health). He takes over from Howard Wilder, following this year’s NOAH AGM in London on the 21st April. Bob Parmenter is the Managing director of the UK and Ireland for Dechra Veterinary Products.




NOAH Annual Dinner - 24 April 2010

Phil Sketchley, NOAH chief executive, presents FAB director Claire Bessant with money raised through a raffle held at the NOAH dinner


Dr Tony Andrews receives the brand new NOAH Award for Contribution to Animal Health. This was in recognition of 6 years as director of RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture), from 2003 - 2009



Merial Animal Health found in breach of NOAH Code on promotion
At its meeting on 14 May 2010, the NOAH Code of Practice Committee, chaired by Mr Guy Tritton, heard one case.

Merial Animal Health was found to be in breach of one of the two items under complaint. This related to the literature promoting IVOMEC SUPER, in that incorrect data contained in the table on page 3 of the brochure which maintained that Closantel™ injection was effective against flukes aged 9 weeks or older, when in fact, at the time the undated brochure was distributed, Closantel was effective against flukes aged 7 weeks or older.
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