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Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing products for technical and pharmaceutical use to Great Britain.
Information for camelid keepers on reporting suspected bluetongue cases. How to identify and move your camelids.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing hay and straw to Great Britain.
Clarifications on the certification of animal products for imports of medium risk animal products, for use by vets, importers and border officials.
How vets can submit samples to APHA laboratory testing services and prices for these services.
What an agent must do to communicate with the Cattle Tracing System on behalf of a keeper of cattle, bison or buffalo.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live or germinal products of invertebrates, amphibians or reptiles to Great Britain.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing other live animals or genetic material to Great Britain.
Sets out details of our new web-based interactive map showing registered locations of TB breakdowns.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing live equine or equine genetic material to Great Britain.
How to manage tuberculosis (TB) in your non-bovine animals, when you can move them, and how to get compensation if you slaughter them.
How to report deer movements to the Livestock Information Service, including imports and exports.
Vets can sign up to get text or email alerts from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for animal health threats for livestock and small animals.
Alerts issued by APHA’s endemic and emerging disease alert system (EEDAS) for vets working with livestock.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
What breed societies and organisations need a zootechnical certificate for, and what information it must include.
Privacy notice regarding personal data processed by the VMD.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when carry out vet checks on animal products being imported to Great Britain.
Use this licence to move live animals out of one bluetongue restricted zone into another bluetongue restricted zone.
Guidance for farmers and others who work with livestock on reducing the risk of human M. bovis infection.
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