Agriculture and Animal Health - Introduction

The department's officers visit animal feed manufacturers and suppliers to ensure that feed is safe and of merchantable quality. We take samples and check labelling to ensure that feed is labelled correctly and contains the levels of nutrients claimed. Samples are also taken to ensure that feed is not contaminated with any undesirable substances.

Our Animal Health Officers regularly visit farms, abattoirs, and transit points to check that the health of livestock is maintained. Movement control records are kept so that animals can be quickly traced in the event of an outbreak of serious notifiable disease, such as foot and mouth or swine fever.

Agriculture and Animal Health - Advice

• Agriculture

• Animal Health

• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

• Bluetongue - Latest Information

• Feed Hygiene - Guidance on the Feed (Hygiene & Enforcement)(England) Regulatory 2005

• Information for Primary Producers
  (Food Standards Agency)

• Reducing Mycotoxins in cereals (Code of Practice)
  (Food Standards Agency)

Agriculture and Animal Health - Web Sites

• Hampshire Scientific Service

• School Meals

• Healthy Schools

• HC3S (Hampshire County Council Catering Service)

• EU Animal Feed Home Page

• BSE/TSE Home Page
  (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

• FSA's advisory committee on animal feeding stuffs ACAF
  (Food Standards Agency)

• Internet for Agriculture, Food and Forestry - (a tutorial to finding information on the web)
  (External Site)

• Tuberculosis Controls
  (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)