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Services

APHA Weybridge: general testing form (LSW008)

Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
General submission form for diagnostic tests

Submit samples for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by APHA.
Sheep and goats: diagnostic test submission form

Submit samples from sheep and goats for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Cattle: diagnostic test submission form

Submit samples from cattle for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Test for suspected tuberculosis (TB) in pet mammals (BA704)

Use this form to submit tissue samples from pet mammals to test for the bacteria that can cause TB.

Bird flu: rules in disease control zones in England
- Detailed guide
- 31 January 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Bluetongue movement licences and designated slaughterhouses
- Detailed guide
- 11 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Fallen stock and safe disposal of dead animals
- Detailed guide
- 5 August 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Defra-approved disinfectant: when and how to use it
- Detailed guide
- 6 October 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Get free bluetongue testing if you're in a bluetongue zone
- Detailed guide
- 5 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England
- 24 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Bird keepers must maintain scrupulous biosecurity standards as housing measures set to be lifted
- 11 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Single case of atypical BSE confirmed on a farm in Cornwall
- 20 March 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Food Standards Agency
- News story
Single case of classical BSE confirmed on a farm in Somerset
- 17 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Food Standards Agency
- News story
Bluetongue virus detected and dealt with in four imported sheep
- 12 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release

Bird flu (avian influenza): findings in captive mammals
- 24 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
African swine fever in pigs in South East Asia and Oceania
- 10 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Foot and mouth disease in Hungary
- 7 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
Cattle population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 5 March 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Influenza A (H5N1) of avian origin in domestic livestock in the USA
- 25 February 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research

National Biosecurity Centre Programme – Weybridge
- 18 March 2025
- Animal and Plant Health Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Mitigation strategy for avian influenza in wild birds in England and Wales
- 18 March 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Notifiable avian disease control strategy
- 26 September 2019
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Foot and mouth disease: Exercise Blackthorn evaluation 2018
- 28 November 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper