We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Form for a manufacturing company to apply for Defra approval of a disinfectant to be used in the event of an animal disease outbreak.
Check for listed disinfectants for aquaculture; or apply to have your product listed.
How to clean and disinfect after an animal disease outbreak and store and dispose of the washwater.
Find out about the process and costs to apply for Defra disinfectant approval.
Tell the Environment Agency how you'll dispose of cleaning and disinfection washwater after an animal disease outbreak, for example, salmonella.
Guidance on decontamination and infection control, including surgical instruments, dental equipment, endoscopes and benchtop steam sterilizers.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
The unit is a specialist in aerobiology, biocontainment and biosafety. The unit provides government departments and the commercial sector with expertise, advice and consultancy.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you breed turkeys, and what happens if a flock tests positive.
How to prevent the introduction and spread of animal and bird disease by following good hygiene and biosecurity standards.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
Find out when and how to take samples for testing, and what happens if one of your flocks tests positive.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
UKHSA is working with partners to investigate a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreak.
How to reduce the risk of disease from your animal feed storage units.
Findings from a 2021 to 2022 incident response by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to Staphylococcus capitis in UK neonatal units.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).