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Ana Kill values positively the contribution of the industry of animal health to the public health

14/01/2013

14 January 2013

The minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Ana Kill, valued of way very positive the indispensable contribution to the public health and to the alimentary hygiene of our country, of the Spanish industry of animal health, thanks to his work of prevention and treatment of the animal illnesses transmisibles to the human being, at the same time that recognised to the Spanish Business Association of the Industry of Health and Animal Nutrition (Veterindustria), like interlocutor of the sector.

A contribution of strategic character, as it manifested also in the transcurso of the meeting that kept the day 10 of the present month in his official dispatch, with a representation of the association formed by his president, Emilio Gil, to the that accompanied the general director, Santiago of Andrés, and the technical director, Pablo Hervás. By part of the ministry also assisted, the general director of the Basic Wallet of Services of the National System of Health and Pharmacy, Agustín Rivero Squared.

In the celebrated meeting during more than an hour in an environingingment of big cordialidad, the minister knew the figures macroeconómicas of the sector, of special way the relative to the exports by which showed big interest since they put of relief the internationalisation of the Spanish industry of animal health, his big competitiveness and the recognition that has out of our borders. The narrow and continued collaboration with the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Sanitary ware Products (AEMPS), and his prestige in the European context have been keys for the international expansion of this industry, puntualizó Emilio Gil.

The course of the preliminary draft of law of modification of the Law 29/2006, like occasion to implement improvements in the current normative, and of special way the opportunity that means to recognise the indispensable paper of the veterinary like essential element of the sector, went also tackled during the meeting.

Another of the subjects treated was the related with the activity in R&D of the industry, in which the representatives of Veterindustria did special upsetting in the work that the Association exerts in this terrain, as it shows it the set up of the Technological Platform Spaniard of Animal Health (Vet+i), that led by the patronal is already a forum of recognised prestige for all the agents that have something that see with the animal health in our country. Besides, Santiago of Andrés, like president of the platform took advantage of to appreciate for the industry the support that always has loaned the Ministry of Health to the Platform Vet+i, at the same time that they commented other subjects related with her like the recent presentation of the ‘Strategic Plan 2020', the new web ‘VetInnova' and the development of the ‘Guides of Responsible Use of Medicines by Species'.