Media Release
APVMA performance declines further to an unprecedented low
21 August 2017 (Canberra) – The recently released Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) performance statistics highlight the ongoing ramifications of the loss of key specialist staff and structural inefficiencies. The Regulator achieved only 24 per cent of work within statutory timeframes for crop protection pesticide product registrations – this is a significant drop from the previous all-time low of 30 per cent last quarter. All indicators and performance statistics in this most recent…