Veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) also require safety monitoring to addresses the animal safety as well as vigilance for humans exposed to VMPs accidentally or otherwise. Several standards are applicable for reporting the adverse reactions, medication errors or events due to manufacturing/product defect.

It is indeed significant to correctly interpret these standards and reporting formats of different regions such as that of European Union (European Veterinary Pharmacovigilance Reporting Form for MAHs) and United States (Veterinary Adverse Drug Reaction, Lack of Effectiveness, Product Defect Report) which have their own reporting formats in PDF and for XML outputs.
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