Animal and plant health

Services

Rabies antibody tests: pet travel schemes (VLARAB1)

Use this form to submit samples to test pets for rabies antibodies for international pet travel schemes.
APHA Weybridge: general testing form (LSW008)

Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
Export: APHA animal disease testing

Use this form to submit samples from animals for laboratory testing to meet the requirements for an export health certificate.
Template commercial document for imports of animal by-products to Great Britain

Suppliers and transporters of animal by-products (ABP) can use this template to create a commercial document to accompany ABP being exported to Great Britain.
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).

Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS)
- Detailed guide
- 30 April 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Bird flu: rules in disease control zones in England
- Detailed guide
- 4 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Bird flu (avian influenza): how to spot and report it in poultry or other captive birds
- Detailed guide
- 13 December 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Contact APHA
- Detailed guide
- 27 September 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
Bird flu (avian influenza): how to prevent it and stop it spreading
- Detailed guide
- 12 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England
- 21 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Genta-Equine 100 mg/ml Solution for Injection for Horses – Adverse events
- 18 December 2024
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- News story
VMD seizes over 13,000 unauthorised horse medicines sold illegally online
- 18 December 2024
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- News story
New controls on sheep and goat products to protect against peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
- 17 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Avian influenza prevention zone declared in four counties
- 13 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Press release

Risk assessment: airborne introduction of bluetongue virus
- 20 December 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency and Met Office
- Research
UK native animal breeds at risk list
- 18 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
Bird flu (avian influenza): cases in wild birds
- 16 December 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Small ruminant: Great Britain disease surveillance and emerging threats reports
- 10 December 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Zoonoses and veterinary public health: disease surveillance reports
- 2 December 2024
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research

Contingency plan for exotic notifiable diseases of animals in England
- 11 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper
Animal by-products legislation for England: exemptions
- 9 September 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
TR541: Policy for authorisation of Approved Tuberculin Testers
- 5 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper
ET175: Policy for authorisation of Certification Support Officers
- 5 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper
ET209: Policy for authorisation of FCCOs in Great Britain by APHA
- 5 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper

AHWBE: register of interests
- 20 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Transparency
Veterinary Medicines Directorate Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
- 5 November 2024
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Corporate report
Trade Specialised Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- 18 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Transparency
VMD FOI requests received 1 January to 30 June 2024
- 20 August 2024
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Foi release
VMD FOI requests received 1 July to 31 December 2023
- 19 August 2024
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate
- Foi release