Food, Agriculture and Animal Health

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 - Business Advice

Subject	Type of Advice
Animal feed:	Retail Sale of Animal feed Bakers - Supplying Bread For Animal Feed
Feed hygiene:	Feed Hygiene - Guidance on the Feed (Hygiene & Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2005
Food producers:	Information for Primary Producers (Food Standards Agency)
Mycotoxins:	Reducing Mycotoxins in cereals (Guide) (Food Standards Agency)
Pesticides:	Sale and Advertisement of pesticides

Animal Health - Advice

Subject	Type of Advice
Animal by-products	Guidance on the disposal of animal by-products and carcases Controls on animal by-products Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Animal feed	Feed hygiene for farmers and growers Retail Sale of Animal Feeds
Bluetongue	Bluetongue - Latest Information
Calves	Calves at market Humane Disposal of Infant Calves and Possible Outlets
Casualty slaughter	Casualty Slaughter - Guidance for Farmers and Hauliers
Cattle	Cattle That have Been Refused Passports Information for keepers of cattle Notice to all exhibitors of cattle both for showing and trade stands Requirements for cattle identification
Cleansing and disinfection	Cleansing and disinfection of vehicles carrying cattle, sheep, goats, pigs
Deer	Deer Carcase and Offal Disposal - Farmed and Wild
Horses	Guidance For Those Who Transport Horses By Road Horse Passports The Welfare of Horses at Markets (and Other Places of Sale) Order 1990
Livestock	Animal Gatherings Buying or selling of livestock Home slaughter of livestock for private consumption Livestock markets
Performing animals	Performing animals - Licensing
Pigs	Information about the keeping and movement of pigs Keeping pet pigs Swine Flu - Risk of introducing new variant Influenza A/H1N1 (Swine Flu) to the UK pig population
Poultry	Guidance notes on the registration and records of poultry Guidance for the Handling of Poultry at Markets The Diseases of Poultry (England) Order 2003
Rabies	Rabies - Prevention and Control
Sheep	Animal Health Act 1981 and the Sheep Scab Order 1997 Sheep Scab Order 1997 The slaughter of sheep for private consumption by the owner
Transport	Farm Animal Transport Journey Times Guidance notes on food chain information (FCI) Transport of Farm Animals - Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Poultry Transporting livestock by road Vehicles - Construction of Livestock Transport Vehicles
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)	BSE Testing - Fallen Cattle
Tuberculosis	Bovine TB (Tuberculosis)
Veterinary Records	Veterinary Medicine Records - Keeping and Retention of

Animal Health - Consumer

Subject	Type of advice
Horses	Guidance For Those Who Transport Horses by Road
Pigs	Are you thinking of buying a 'micro pig' as a present?
Rabies	Rabies - Prevention and Control

Agriculture and Animal Health

Agriculture and Animal Health - Introduction

Agriculture - Business Advice

Animal Health - Advice

Animal Health - Consumer

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