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Avian influenza (bird flu): Latest situation
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An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone has been declared across England, Scotland and Wales.
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
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To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020, Rod Card, APHA senior scientist for the UK FAO Reference Centre for AMR, talks about the work APHA and other UK government agencies have been doing to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
The risk to public health from the virus is very low and the Food Standards Agency advises that bird flu poses a very low food safety risk.
The risk of public health from the virus is very low and this strain of avian influenza does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.
Poultry keepers are urged to prepare for winter avian flu and reduce the risk of disease in their birds over the winter
The new fund aims to boost the certification capacity for exports to the EU at the end of the transition period.
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APHA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Welsh Government and The Scottish Government.
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