Germany. The Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine has extended the suspension of approval for veterinary medicines containing the insecticide/parasiticide, carbaril, until 15 August 1998 pending the availability of results from further studies and a reassessment of the genotoxic and carcinogenic potential of carbaril.

[See also Pharmaceuticals Newsletter Nos. 9&10, September&November 1997]

Reference: Notification from the Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Veterinary Medicine, 4 February 1998.