Improve the Knowledge and Skills of Veterinarians

Our relationship with veterinarians is key to our business and therefore, we provide added value services in the form of educational programmes focused on our key therapeutic areas. We deliver this education through many channels, including conferences and our digital e-learning environment, the Dechra Academy.

Dechra Academy

 

To Act with Honesty and Integrity

We are committed to acting responsibly and with integrity, respecting the laws, regulations, traditions and cultures of the countries within which we operate. This is reflected through our Values. We expect our third parties to trade with honesty and integrity. Therefore we have introduced a Third Party Code of Conduct, which communicates what we expect from our trading partners in relation to health, safety and environmental standards, internationally accepted standards of workers’ rights, use of child and forced labour, ethical standards, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, and compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Our Modern Slavery Statement can be found at www.dechra.com.

Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption

It is our policy to conduct all business in an honest and ethical manner. We take a zero tolerance approach to bribery and corruption and are committed to acting professionally, fairly and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships wherever we operate, and to implement and enforce effective systems to counter bribery and corruption.

During the year, we have successfully rolled out an ABC training course for Dechra’s third party network, updated and published internal ABC policies and procedure, and have developed a new internal ABC training programme which will be rolled out during the forthcoming year across the business as compulsory training.

Human Rights

Dechra is committed to upholding and respecting human rights both within our business and from our suppliers. However, Dechra does not currently have a separate human rights policy.

Animal Welfare

It is our mission to develop products to improve animal welfare. We are committed to the responsible use and humane treatment of animals. We carefully consider the use of animals in research. However, occasionally it is necessary to conduct toxicology testing to achieve product registrations. The majority of the toxicology information can be derived from existing bibliographic data. When additional data is required by the regulators a third party Contract Research Organisation (CRO) will undertake the study on a minimum number of animals.

The following principles are applied in any trials which involve animals:

• animals should be treated humanely with greatest consideration given to their health and welfare and consistent with meeting the necessary scientific objectives; and
• all animal studies should only be performed after considering whether the numbers of animals can be reduced, replaced or the procedures refined to minimise distress.

All employees, except manufacturing shop floor workers, receive pharmacovigilance training within one month of joining Dechra. This is then verified by the pharmacovigilance e-learning module on Delta. These employees undertake an annual pharmacovigilance refresher training. The pharmacovigilance training outlines the procedure that should be followed by all Dechra personnel if they are informed of a product complaint.

Any time that Dechra receives a report of an adverse event occurring after the administration of one of its products, the Company treats the report seriously and believes that it is Dechra’s obligation to review the case to determine whether its product may have caused or contributed to the adverse event. All suspect adverse reactions are reported to the appropriate regional regulatory authority.