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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.
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).
Brucellosis: investigation of abortion or calving (BS07)

Form for Official Veterinarians to submit samples to test for brucellosis in an investigation of abortion or premature calving.
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).

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
- 21 February 2025
- 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
- 12 February 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England
- 20 February 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

Avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK
- 20 February 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Peste des petits ruminants in Eastern Europe
- 10 February 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Foot and mouth disease in water buffalo in Germany
- 14 January 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
Pig population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 4 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Sheep and goat population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 28 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research

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