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Who you should contact if a pet or other animal or human has an unexpected reaction to a veterinary medicine or a problem with a microchip
Reports published by the Animal and Plant Health Agency on the monitoring of diseases in livestock and poultry.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Collection of guidance for exporting and moving live animals and animal products.
How to apply for a licence to import, release or keep non-native animals.
Animal Health was a UK government executive agency primarily responsible for ensuring that farmed animals in Great Britain were healthy, disease-free and well looked after. It was merged with the Veterinary Laboratory Agency in 2011 to form the Animal Health...
Monitoring for major, notifiable or new and emerging animal disease outbreaks internationally and in the UK.
Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
What you need to do to export or move animal bones, protein and other by-products.
What you need to do to export animal germplasm (semen, ova, and embryos).
Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Information on compliance with ASPA and investigations into non-compliance.
Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
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