NOAH launches Pet Health Information website
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 rang e 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.
The Pet Health Information website,
launched by chairman of the Companion Animal Welfare Council (CAWC),
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, is a NOAH initiative to help raise awareness of safe,
effective and preventative healthcare for pets.
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National Pet Month 2008 a great success - and
charity gears up for 2009 celebrations!
 National
Pet Month, which took place from 5 April - 5 May 2008 with the theme 'Great British Pets'
was once more a great success.
NOAH is proud to be one of the three trustee organisations supporting the
charity (along with PFMA and Pet Care Trust) which once again was sponsored
by Iams.
National Pet Month 2009 will run from 4 April - 4 May. Check out the National Pet
Month website to see how to get involved.
Sid and Wiggle visit Selfridges for the National Pet Month Hall of Fame
photo gallery which was displayed during NPM
Veterinary Residues Committee (VRC) issues
consumer fact sheet
The independent VRC has published a
fact sheet for consumers explaining the Committee’s role in overseeing
surveillance for residues and its
findings.
Research among
consumers found that most were content that farmers needed to use
medicines to protect the health and welfare of animals. However, some
thought food was ‘pumped up’ with hormones and antibiotics. This is not
true. So the
VRC fact sheet, endorsed by both
RUMA and
Foodaware
(the Consumers' Food Group) sets out the real position.
Peter Jones is new NOAH Honorary member
Peter Jones has been made an Honorary Member of NOAH, in recognition of
his contribution to NOAH and to the animal health industry.
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NOAH Annual Dinner
The NOAH dinner took place on 23 April 2008
NOAH raffle raises funds for BVA Animal Welfare
Foundation
Phil Sketchley, NOAH chief executive, presents a cheque to BVA Animal
Welfare Foundation chairman Carl Padgett. Many thanks to the NOAH members
who kindly donated prizes and to guests for their generosity in buying
tickets.
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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'It
shouldn't happen to a pet' winner rewarded
The story of ‘Spliff’ the Staffy has clinched
the title of the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) nationwide search
for the most striking ‘it shouldn’t happen to a pet’ anecdote. Submitted by
Vets4Pets in Grimsby, the practice received a prize of £500 towards the
staff Christmas party. NOAH’s search prompted considerable interest from
practices and pet shops around the country, highlighting the lack of
awareness of pet health issues amongst owners.
In a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of animal health and
welfare considerations amongst pet owners and potential owners, NOAH has
launched the Pet
Health Information website to enable them to make informed decisions
about their pets’ healthcare.
Formal Code of Practice Reprimand for Pfizer
Animal Health
The NOAH Board has issued a formal
reprimand to Pfizer Animal Health following a breach of an Undertaking
relating to the promotion of Spirovac®. Pfizer will be writing to all
recipients of the offending material to apologise, and to correct any
misunderstanding that may have arisen.
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2007 animal
antimicrobial figures are the lowest yet
NOAH has welcomed the publication by the
Veterinary Medicines
Directorate of the 2007 figures for antimicrobial use in the UK. The
report showed the lowest amount of antimicrobials used in animals since
publication of the figures started 10 years ago.
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RUMA celebrates its 10th anniversary!
The RUMA (the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture) Alliance - of
which NOAH is a member - held a seminar in London on 25 June called 'A
responsibility to change - a challenge for RUMA'. Chaired by Bill Wiggin MP
(Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), the event
attended by around 60 leaders in British food production, focussed on why it
was established, what it is doing now and its challenges for the future.
Back row - Gerardine Padbury; Bill Wiggin MP; RUMA director Tony Andrews
(hiding!); founding chairman Brian Jennings; current chairman Peter Allen.
Front row Prof Steve Dean; Dr Ian Brown; Declan O'Brien; Philippa Wiltshire
For more about RUMA look at the RUMA website
www.ruma.org.uk or download the
RUMA factsheet.
How much do we really love our pets?
New research has revealed that
91% of Brits say pets have a positive impact on children and over half
believe pet owners are more responsible citizens. What’s more, seven out of
ten surveyed believe that pet ownership makes you more intuitive to the
needs of others, whilst almost two thirds (62%) say pet owners are more
caring. And yet, additional research showed that, as a nation, we don’t give
our faithful companions the due care and attention they deserve.
Research released by NOAH to mark the
launch of the Pet Health Information website
illustrates a
shocking lack of awareness of pet health issues, such as worming and
vaccination, amongst some pet owners.
Celebrity vet Scott Miller discussed the research in a series of radio
interviews with NOAH chief executive Phil Sketchley
The research said pet owners fall into two categories –
those who are ‘preventers’ and those who are ‘non-preventers’. Whilst both
camps agreed that responsible pet ownership equalled love and attention
resulting in caring, feeding and exercising their pets, disease prevention
was often not seen as part of this love with only 55% of dogs and 46% of
cats over two years of age being vaccinated against potentially fatal
diseases. Click here for more..
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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NOAH
chairman 2008/09
This year's NOAH chairman Howard Wilder (Genitrix - right) with extreme athlete
Chris Moon, pictured at the NOAH Annual Dinner in April.
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New RUMA vaccination checklist
The vaccination of the first animals against Bluetongue virus has been very
much in the farming – and indeed public – eye recently. It has been welcomed
as a major breakthrough in fighting disease and securing good farm animal
health and welfare.
But of course Bluetongue is not the only disease that can
be prevented by vaccination, and cattle and sheep are not the only species
that can benefit. All cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry can receive the
benefits of vaccines to prevent them breaking down with disease. However for
this to be as effective as possible vaccination must be done RIGHT.
To this end, the Responsible Use of Medicines in
Agriculture (RUMA) has launched a check list to ensure the RIGHT Animals,
receive the RIGHT pre-vaccination Management, and RIGHT Handling, using the
RIGHT Vaccine, with the RIGHT Vaccine Care, and RIGHT Timing, using the
RIGHT Route, at the RIGHT Site and the RIGHT Technique.
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