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Collection of guidance for importing live animals and animal products.
Check if your import, export or re-export needs a permit or certificate under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Check if an online retailer that sells pet medicines is on the Veterinary Medicines Directorate’s accredited internet retailer scheme (AIRS)
How to minimise the risk of disease from animal wool and hair, register your site, and dispose of materials you don't want.
We work to safeguard animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the environment and the economy. APHA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs , the Welsh Government , and The...
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
News and consultations from the Fish Health Inspectorate about disease outbreaks and policy changes which affect the aquaculture industry
Apply to manufacture Extemporaneous preparations, Autogenous vaccines, authorisations for Equine Stem Cell Centre (ESCCA) or Non-Food Animal Blood Bank (NFABBA).
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Letter from the Animal Sentience Committee to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee on the changes to bovine identification, registration and movement.
Monitoring for major, notifiable or new and emerging animal disease outbreaks internationally and in the UK.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare on farms, in transport, at markets and at slaughter.
What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.
This series brings together all documents relating to Animals in science statistics
The Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance (HAIRS) group identifies and assesses emerging infection risks to human health.
Exporters of groups of products of animal origin (POAO) to the EU and Northern Ireland can join the groupage export facilitation scheme (GEFS) to use 30-day support attestations.
Guidance for EU exporters, exporters from rest of the world and UK importers, on how to import groupage or mixed load consignments of animal products into Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Use form ALVS1 if the Automatic Licence Verification System cannot process an automatic release on CHIEF or the Customs Declaration Service.
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