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When and how to complete your annual sheep and goat inventory and how to submit it.
Information about the availability of BTV-3 vaccines for animal keepers.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing pet food and feed for other animals, including fish bait, to Great Britain.
How to meet expected welfare, health and safety standards in the horse industry if keeping horses for commercial purposes in the UK.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Cattle keepers must tag a newborn calf, add its details to their holding register and register its birth within legal deadlines.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
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.
General licence for the movement of resolved inconclusive reactors from officially TB free cattle herds in England directly or indirectly to slaughter.
How to spot African swine fever, what to do if you suspect it and how to stop it spreading.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you’re an egg producer, and what happens if a laying flock tests positive.
How vets in England and Wales can submit carcases to APHA for a post-mortem examination.
How vets in England and Wales can submit samples to APHA for non-statutory diagnostic testing.
You should use this licence to move poultry by-products and hatching eggs for disposal from a protection or surveillance zone in England and Wales.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing other animal products for human consumption (such as honey or snails) to Great Britain.
List of sheep and goat tag suppliers approved by the Rural Payments Agency.
Use this licence to move live animals from a bluetongue restricted zone to Scotland.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
APHA detects and investigates new and re-emerging diseases in animals in England and Wales.
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