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Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) contact details for private vets, Official Veterinarians, and others in an official capacity.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing animal products that are being returned to Great Britain.
What you need to do when you send cattle, bison or buffalo to a slaughterhouse.
How to meet statutory bovine TB testing requirements when moving cattle in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), and across their borders.
All national applications will be processed on one of six timetables that vary in length depending on the complexity and nature of the application under assessment.
How to get and maintain an ATT qualification, and what to do if you want to end your authorisation.
How to manage tuberculosis (TB) in your non-bovine animals, when you can move them, and how to get compensation if you slaughter them.
What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.
Poultry valuation tables outline the value of poultry in Great Britain.
How poultry producers can join and pay fees for the Poultry Health Scheme, and how to pay fees to become a PHS approved laboratory.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing blood and blood products to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing gelatine and collagen for human consumption to Great Britain.
Technical information about the import requirements for live animals and germplasm, for use by vets, importers and border officials.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live birds, poultry or poultry products to Great Britain.
The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.
Pig owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move pigs.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
Defra’s Secretary of State has permitted the use of this bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) vaccine within the United Kingdom, subject to licence.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
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