Livestock are free from pain, injury or disease |
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Prevention of pain, injury and disease to livestock |
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Reduce the incidence of TSEs in livestock |
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Do not feed animal protein, or any feeding stuff that contains animal protein, to ruminants |
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Do not use fishmeal; blood products; bloodmeal (for feeding to farmed fish); dicalcium phosphate and tricalcium phosphate of animal origin to produce feed for non-ruminants (without authorisation) |
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Do not feed products containing gelatine from ruminants or processed animal protein to any farmed animals |
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Livestock are provided with a diet that provides sufficient nutrients (e.g. energy, protein, minerals) to meet the daily demands for maintenance and production |
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Loading and unloading procedures and techniques minimise distress to pigs |
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Loading and unloading procedures and techniques minimise distress to livestock |
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Facilities for loading and unloading livestock for transport are secure and designed avoid injuries |
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Unfit livestock are not transported |
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Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean |
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Surgical operations are carried out by a competent stockman or vet |
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Minimise the transmission of livestock diseases |
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Livestock housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned |
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Poultry housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned |
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Reduce contamination of forage/feed with pathogens |
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After slurry/manure application, pasture is not grazed for one month, preferably eight weeks, or until all visible signs of the slurry solids have disappeared |
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Muckheaps must be fenced off if they are in areas accessible to stock |
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Visitors to poultry farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities |
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Notify the relevant authority immediately if you know or suspect that an animal or carcass on the farm is infected with: foot and mouth disease; bluetongue; rinderpest; peste des petits ruminants; swine vesicular disease; epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease of deer; sheep and goat pox; vesicular stomatitis; African swine fever; lumpy skin disease; Rift Valley fever |
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Pig housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned |
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Incoming pigs are quarantined |
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Visitors to pig farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities |
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Incoming livestock are quarantined |
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Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean |
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Visitors to the farm pass through adequate disinfection facilities |
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Livestock have individual (or batch) identification |
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Livestock movements are fully recorded |
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Livestock health history is fully recorded |
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Sick or injured livestock are isolated |
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Facilities and materials harmful to livestock are inaccessible to livestock |
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Livestock feed is free from harmful contaminants |
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Livestock feed is stored away from harmful contaminants |
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Lorries/trucks/loaders and other equipment used to transport and handle poultry feed are kept clean |
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Poultry feed is stored in conditions that prevent deterioration and contamination |
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Reduce contamination of forage/feed with pathogens |
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After slurry/manure application, pasture is not grazed for one month, preferably eight weeks, or until all visible signs of the slurry solids have disappeared |
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Muckheaps must be fenced off if they are in areas accessible to stock |
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Lorries/trucks/loaders and other equipment used to transport and handle pig feed are kept clean |
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Reduce contamination of forage/feed with toxic elements |
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Do not graze livestock or harvest forage crops for 3 weeks after applying sewage sludge |
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Do not use sewage sludge on grassland |
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Reduce concentrations of toxic elements within forage crops |
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Concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are kept below maximum permissible limits on grassland/forage soils |
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Do not use sewage sludge on grassland/forage soil that has not been properly sampled and analysed |
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Do not use sewage sludge on grassland |
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Do not exceed the limits for the average annual rate of addition through sewage sludge of toxic elements on grassland/forage soils |
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Do not use sewage sludge on grassland/forage land where the limits for PTEs have been exceeded or will be exceeded if the sludge is applied |
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Do not use sewage sludge that has not been properly sampled and analysed on grassland/forage soils |
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Do not use sewage sludge on grassland |
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Do not apply sewage sludge to grassland/forage soils with a pH of less than 5 |
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Reduce the spread of injurious plants |
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Prevent the spread of injurous weeds |
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Pig feed is stored in conditions that prevent deterioration and contamination |
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Livestock feed is stored in conditions that prevent deterioration and contamination |
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Lorries/trucks/loaders and other equipment used to transport and handle feed are kept clean |
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Livestock are regularly inspected |
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Livestock are provided with sufficient space |
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Pain, injury and disease of livestock is rapidly diagnosed and treated |
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Lighting in livestock housing is adequate to inspect livestock |
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Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean |
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Surgical operations are carried out by a competent stockman or vet |
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Sick or injured livestock are isolated |
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Injured or ill livestock receive immediate attention, including veterinary treatment if required |
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Livestock are regularly inspected |