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Details of premises approved to operate as exempt finishing units for cattle in England.
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
You should use this licence to move table eggs into, within or out of a protection or surveillance zone.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Guidance to avoid human infection on farms and good farm practices to reduce human and animal health risks.
Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.
When you can incinerate straw, manure and litter from an animal disease outbreak.
Guidance for owners of domestic goats in England and Scotland on tuberculosis (TB), how and why TB is tested for, and what happens if it's detected in goats.
How ear tag manufacturers and suppliers must get cattle ear tags tested to meet Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) 44:2019.
When you can dispose of infected and non-infected waste milk from an animal disease outbreak.
Guidance for ear tag manufacturers and suppliers about sheep and goat EID technical standards.
Mark which must be used to identify poultry meat from a protection zone.
List of approved laboratories for testing under the Poultry Health Scheme.
Manufacturers and suppliers of ear tags for sheep and goats must follow this code of practice.
This notice explains the opening of Private Storage Aid (PSA) for pigmeat in England and the details of the scheme
You should use this licence to move table eggs from a premises in a free area to an egg processing plant in a protection zone or surveillance zone.
You should use this licence to move hatching eggs from a premises in a protection zone or surveillance zone to a designated premises.
Privacy notice regarding personal data processed by the VMD.
Manufacturers and suppliers of cattle ear tags must follow this code of practice.
This licence allows you to move poultry by-products and hatching eggs for disposal from premises in a protection or surveillance zone.
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