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Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from a non-EU country to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the import rules and inspection rate…
Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.
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 products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of…
Details of working for APHA, along with current vacancies and study opportunities, and information on how to apply.
Collection of guidance for importing live animals and animal products.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Details of approved and registered animal by-product (ABP) operating plants in Great Britain and the Channel Islands.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
The signs of bluetongue virus and how you must report it in sheep, cattle and other livestock.
How to get a flock or herd mark for livestock (including those kept as pets) and keep your registered details up to date.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.
Find notifiable exotic animal disease cases and control zone declarations for England.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
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 petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The rules you must follow to ensure sheep and goats, including those kept as pets, can be traced to prevent and contain disease.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
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.
Bluetongue does not affect human health or food safety.
Apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.
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