Reduce incidence of zoonotic diseases in animals which might pose a hazard to human health
Activities making a positive contribution:
Activities | Score |
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 | 5 |
Incoming livestock are quarantined | 5 |
Incoming pigs are quarantined | 5 |
Livestock have individual (or batch) identification | 5 |
Livestock health history is fully recorded | 5 |
Livestock housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned | 5 |
Livestock movements are fully recorded | 5 |
Muckheaps must be fenced off if they are in areas accessible to stock | 5 |
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 | 5 |
Pig housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned | 5 |
Poultry housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned | 5 |
Sick or injured livestock are isolated | 5 |
Visitors to pig farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities | 5 |
Visitors to poultry farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities | 5 |
Visitors to the farm pass through adequate disinfection facilities | 5 |
Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean | 4 |
Defra Project IF0131
Assessment of reduction in environmental burdens through targeted measures compared with whole farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
© AERU, University of Hertfordshire
Friday 30 October 2009