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Find out about sampling, testing and laboratory requirements for sheep in reviews and follow-ups.
How to prepare your business for food safety inspections and avoid enforcement action.
Use this licence to move live animals out of one bluetongue restricted zone into another bluetongue restricted zone.
Additives and E numbers for colours, preservatives, antioxidants, sweeteners, emulsifiers, stabilisers, thickeners and other types of additives
Clarifications on the certification of animal products for imports of medium risk animal products, for use by vets, importers and border officials.
Find out the tests that are most commonly requested from APHA, their test codes, and the correct laboratory to send samples.
Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
This document provides advice on owning a horse, pony, donkey or hybrid.
Find out about the process and costs to apply for Defra disinfectant approval.
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.
Requirements for wine exporters to be self-certified or have an EU VI-1 to export wine to the EU or move it to Northern Ireland.
Find out what you must ask your vet to do during a follow-up.
How vets in England and Wales can submit carcases to APHA for a post-mortem examination.
Defining what a high-risk product is, guidance on aflatoxin levels in imported food, current Great Britain restrictions and guidance for importing certain products from defined countries.
Technical information, notes and guidance on the surveys of the structure of the agricultural industry.
What to include in a holding register, including how to record pig movements and taking an annual inventory.
Plants and wood that need a plant passport for movement within Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
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