Policy Updates
Six-monthly surveillance testing in the High Risk Areas (HRA) of England In 2017 Defra announced that default sixmonthly surveillance testing would be introduced for cattle herds...
11 September, 2019
Defra/industry bovine TB biosecurity workshop
Defra recently convened a workshop at the Royal Agricultural University in Gloucestershire to discuss aspects of TB Biosecurity. The workshop followed up on the Biosecurity...
11 September, 2019
Bovine TB support services for farmers
Most farm vets are well aware that suffering a TB breakdown can be a hugely stressful time for farmers both financially and personally. The following...
11 September, 2019
Contacting your local ‘case’ vet
APHA are very keen to encourage OVs to contact the local APHA case vet in circumstances where breakdowns prove explosive, persistent or rapidly spreading. In such...
29 August, 2018
TB policy changes –potential impact
Having announced the ministerial intention to increase the testing frequency in the high risk areas to a default of testing every six months, the delivery...
29 August, 2018
Health & Safety – abandoning unsafe tests
In the most recent three months of the year, when TB testing has been going flat out, practices have reported just 17 incidents where health...
29 August, 2018