veterinary pharmacovigilance ( pv ) is important for the medicine which are used for treating disease in animals . 
 it becomes more important when these animals are further used for producing food . 
 adverse drug reactions ( adrs ) have a direct impact on animals and indirect impact on human beings , for example , through milk products , other animal producing food products . 
 currently , pv program of india is playing a vital role in assessing the safety of medicines in indian population . 
 the safety of medicine in animals can be assessed by veterinary pv . 
 the research institutes involved in animal research and veterinary hospitals can be considered as adr monitoring centers to assess the safety of medicines on animals .