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How vets in England and Wales can submit samples to APHA for non-statutory diagnostic testing.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
Find out how to make fertiliser from processed ABPs including bonemeal, and if you need approval to manufacture, store or transport it.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
What you need to do when sheep and goats pass through your premises, including updating your holding register and reporting movements.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these terms and conditions if they applied for an agreement after 5 January 2023.
About checks and controls when sending parcels that contain sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) goods to Northern Ireland.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Information for egg producers, deliveries, collectors and packing centres to follow the law on registration, marketing and stamping of eggs.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Find out how to take samples from processed ABPs and find laboratories to test them, and what to do if one of your samples fails a test.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing other animal products for human consumption (such as honey or snails) to Great Britain.
How to spot scrapie, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
How catch limits are set and how to get involved in setting them. This includes current catch limits and closed fishing areas.
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
Read about temporary adjustments to agri-environment scheme options and actions in 2024 due to wet weather.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing meat and other meat products for human consumption to Great Britain.
What you must do when sheep and goats arrive for slaughter, including identification checks, and recording and reporting movements.
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