Public, animal and plant health
There are 4 Statutory Management Requirements relating to public, animal and plant health
No.10. The placing of plant protection products on the market:
- Only UK approved pesticides should be used
- Records of pesticides stored and applied should be kept
- Pesticides should be kept in suitable stores
- Pesticides should be applied by competent operators that have relevant certificate(s) of competence
- Sprayers and other application equipment should be available to avoid contamination of the operator of the environment
No.11. Food and feed law:
- Feed should be sourced from registered approved establishments
- No unsafe food or feed should be produced or stored
- Records should include:
Produces received or supplied – delivery dockets for feed
Use of veterinary medicines
Laboratory results, that is for antibiotics or high somatic cell count
Use of plant protection products
Use of genetically modified (GM) seeds for feed - Farmers must ensure correct storage of waste and hazardous substances
- Correct storage of food and feedstuffs
- Adequate measures to prevent the spread of Tuberculosis and Brucellosis through food
- Farmers must provide isolation facilities
Dairy hygiene:
- Farmers must ensure a good state of health of cows
- Milk from animals with Tuberculosis and Brucellosis is withheld and the animal isolated
- Buildings and equipment are maintained to a good standard
- Effective vermin control
- Good milking practice
- Effective milk cooling
Egg hygiene:
- Eggs must be kept clean and dry and stored properly
No.12. Prohibition of the illegal use in stock farming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action of beta-agonists:
- Illegal substances such as those with a hormonal or thyrostatic action are prohibited from use in farm animals
- Farmers must use only UK authorised veterinary medical products
- Farmers must keep medicine records whenever these medicines are used on the farm (that is, keep an up-to-date medicine book)
- Farmers must follow the withdrawal periods for any medicines used
No.13. Prevention, control and eradication of transmissible encephalopathies (TSE):
- Farmers must notify the Divisional Veterinary Office (DVO) if there is a suspected case of TSE and abide by the restrictions imposed
- The feeding of animal protein (meat and bone meal, fishmeal and so on) to ruminants is not permitted
- Steps must be taken to ensure that feed for ruminants is not contaminated by feed for non-ruminants that contain animal protein