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  • AHWBE: protocols for working with agencies and other public bodies

    Protocols for working with Defra’s executive agencies, devolved administrations and other government departments.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • AHWBE recommendation on animal health and welfare strategy for England

    Recommendation by Animal Health and Welfare Board for England on the on animal health and welfare strategy for England

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • AHWBE recommendation to establish an advisory group on bovine TB

    Recommendation to establish an advisory group on bovine TB eradication.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Rabies control strategy

    This consultation sought views on Defra’s recently revised and published draft Rabies Control Strategy.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Rabies disease control strategy for England and Wales

    This document sets out a framework for how an outbreak of rabies in England and Wales would be managed.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Exotic animal disease risk pathways and countermeasures report

    This report reviews the ways by which an animal disease may enter Great Britain and cause a disease outbreak.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Non-formal consultation on electronic reporting of pig movements in England

    Defra consulted non-formally on a proposal to replace the current paper method of reporting pig movements in England with a pre notification electronic system.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Non-formal consultation on proposed changes to BSE testing of cattle slaughtered for human consumption

    Defra, the Food Standards Agency and the Welsh Assembly Government are consulting non-formally on (i) increasing the age threshold above which healthy cattle slaughtered for human consumption require testing for bovine spong…

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Responsibility and cost sharing for animal health and welfare: Final report

    This report sets out our views on this key policy issue, one that affects all animal keepers in England.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Annual review of Defra’s Contingency Plan for Exotic Notifiable Diseases of Animals

    This is a consultation on the Defra (England) Contingency Plan for Exotic Notifiable Diseases of Animals which is reviewed annually and is made under the Animal Health Act 1981 (as amended).

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Vaccination as a control tool for exotic animal disease

    Factors Defra takes into account when considering vaccination as a disease control measure for an exotic animal disease.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • Proposals to implement council directive 92/35/EEC on control of African horse sickness

    Defra invited comments on proposals to introduce new legislation on the control of African horse sickness and the draft associated control strategy…

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • The UK national control programme for Salmonella in breeding flocks (gallus gallus)

    To reduce and/or maintain the prevalence of Salmonellas of public health significance in breeding flocks of gallus gallus on holdings in the UK.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • The UK national control programme for Salmonella in chickens (gallus gallus) reared for meat (broilers)

    To control the low prevalence of Salmonellas in flocks of domestic fowl on holdings in the UK producing chickens for meat for human consumption.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • The UK national control programme for Salmonella in turkeys

    To reduce or maintain the low prevalence of Salmonellas of public health significance in fattening and adult breeding turkey flocks on holdings in the UK.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • The UK national control programme for Salmonella in layers (gallus gallus)

    To reduce the prevalence of Salmonellas of public health significance in flocks of domestic fowl on holdings in the UK producing eggs for human consumption.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain

    The strategy sets out what we want to achieve over the next decade in protecting animal health and welfare.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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    First published during the 1997 to 2007 Blair Labour government