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Preliminary outbreak assessments, qualitative risk assessments and updated situation assessments for bluetongue virus in Europe.
Our last report on 29 November 2023, highlighted for the first time the…
Updated outbreak assessment 8. Disease report Our last report on 18…
A final summary report from the government funded Telecoms and Water Combined Operations (TAWCO) project looking into the possibility of deploying digital infrastructure in potable water.
Results from the quarterly monitoring programme to check UK grown and imported food for pesticide residues.
A review of the pig industry in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) with recommendations for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Animal Welfare Committee advice on emergency culling for the depopulation of poultry affected by high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) - consideration of ventilation shutdown (VSD)
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries.
Animal Welfare Committee update on the opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing.
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs.
Animal Sentience Committee’s views on whether the government has all due regard to the welfare of animals as sentient beings in relation to the Veterinary Medicines Regulation (2013) revisions.
Details of a notification to release a qualifying higher plant.
Preliminary outbreak assessments for Aujeszky’s disease in Europe.
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare implications of different methods and systems for the catching, carrying, collecting and loading of poultry.
Preliminary and updated outbreak assessments for avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK.
Animal Sentience Committee’s views on the Animals (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) Act.
An overview of research and analysis undertaken by Defra.
Defra group open access policy for research publications.
Animal Sentience Committee’s views on whether the government has all due regard to the welfare of animals as sentient beings.
Details of the strategic environmental assessment for the whelk FMP.
Details of the strategic environmental assessment for the crab and lobster FMP.
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