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The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.
This licence allows you to move carcasses and samples from live poultry or other captive birds.
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 live birds, poultry or poultry products to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live equine or equine genetic material to Great Britain.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
This statement explains how accessible the export health certificates online service is.
You should use this licence to move table eggs into, within or out of a protection or surveillance zone.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing fats that are not for human consumption to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing processed animal protein that is not for human consumption to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing research and trade samples or display items to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when carry out vet checks on animal products being imported to Great Britain.
Privacy notice regarding personal data processed by the VMD.
Guidance for cattle keepers in Scotland and Wales on what happens if TB is identified or suspected in their herd.
How to get and maintain a CSO qualification, and what to do if you want to end your authorisation.
Private non-validated or unapproved TB testing in cattle carried out by private vets in England, conditions for testing and how to get permission from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
What to do if any of your cattle, bison or buffalo are lost or stolen, and if you get them back.
How vets can submit samples to APHA laboratory testing services and prices for these services.
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