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Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
How to handle fish and fishery products that are intended to be eaten raw or lightly cooked in food businesses and restaurants.
This table of key dates shows the dates for when an avian influenza control zone is declared around a premises.
Who can fish commercially, who can buy and sell first-sale fish, how to report sales information.
Find the activity codes needed to apply for a Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (WATOK) licence.
Find out about the process and costs to apply for Defra disinfectant approval.
Requirement to analyse samples from food producing animals for residues of veterinary medicines and prohibited substances.
Guidance on importing herbs and spices from third countries.
Information on the risks of acrylamide and how you can reduce the chances of being harmed by it.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
What cattle keepers must do with the barcode labels sent by the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) and how to get more if you run out.
Find out how you can use manure, guano and digestive tract content, including how to store and move them.
How to get authorised as an OV, maintain your authorisation and set up a new practice, and what to do if you will be tuberculin (TB) skin testing.
Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.
Organisers of bird gatherings must have a written contingency plan outlining what to do if there is suspicion or confirmation of notifiable avian disease at or near the gathering.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Farmers and land owners can use the ‘add land’ email service to link land parcels to their business. Land parcels must already be registered in the Rural Payments service.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
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