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Collection of guidance for exporting and moving live animals and animal products.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
What to do if you’re bringing your pet or pets to Great Britain: quarantine rules, documents you need, types of animal you can bring.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export other live animals to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The prohibitions and restrictions on the import of animal furs and skins into the UK and the export of salmon and trout.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
You need a licence to keep certain kinds of wild or dangerous animals: contact your council for more information
When your pet must go in quarantine, how to book a pet carrier and quarantine premises, and how to get your pet released from quarantine.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The CMA has consulted on a proposal to make a market investigation reference into the veterinary services market for household pets in the UK.
Guidance for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
Apply for a licence to import live animals (not pet dogs, cats and ferrets).
Annual statistics relating to scientific procedures performed on living animals in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
Find out where you can source milk or milk products to feed to animals on your farm, and if you need to be on the national milk register.
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
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