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This page is designed to help you navigate to popular areas of our site as quickly as possible.

  • About Quick Links

    About Quick Links

    Hover over the links on the right hand side for a brief overview of the subject and click to visit the associated web page.

  • BeeBase

    BeeBase

    A wide range of free information for beekeepers, to help keep their honey bees healthy and productive.

  • FC24

    FC24

    A comprehensive guide to EU food contaminants legislation and residue limits for food industry professionals.

  • Liaison

    Liaison

    Rapid access to pesticide approvals, label information and pesticide MRLs.

  • Plant Clinic

    Plant Clinic

    Pest and disease identification services for horticultural and agricultural crops, garden plants and plant-based products.

  • Fera International Food Safety
    Training Laboratory (IFSTL)

    Fera International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL)

    Hands-on laboratory based training in fit-for-purpose analytical techniques for food safety.

  • National Reference
    Laboratory

    National Reference Laboratory

    Fera is the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for the UK and for Malta for for chemical contaminants in food and animal feed, pesticides and veterinary drug residues.

  • GM Inspectorate

    GM Inspectorate

    Fera provides Defra with GM inspection and enforcement services for the deliberate release of GMOs.

  • NNSS

    NNSS

    Tools and information for those working to support the GB Invasive Non-native Species Framework Strategy.

  • Government Decontamination Service

    GDS

    Advice, guidance and management support to those with responsibilities for decontamination operations.

  • FAPAS

    FAPAS

    FAPAS, FEPAS, Gemma, Leap and Phytopas are proficiency testing schemes for laboratories worldwide to assess their proficiency in chemical and microbiological analysis.

  • e-Domero

    eDomero

    Online registration for all plant health inspection services relating to the import and export of plants, plant pests, plant produce and, soil and growing media in England and Wales.

  • Seed Certification

    Seed Certification

    Online applications for seed certification in England.

  • Pesticide Usage Statistics

    Pesticide Usage Statistics

    Searchable data from the pesticide usage surveys commissioned by the independent Advisory Committee on Pesticides.

  • Wildlife Incident Unit

    Wildlife Incident Unit

    Information on how to report suspected pesticide poisoning of animals, or evidence of illegal pesticide use that may endanger an animal.

  • CropMonitor

    CropMonitor

    Information sourced from monitoring sites located across the country and reports up to date measurements of crop pest and disease activity in arable crops throughout England.

  • Licensing of non-native biocontrol agents

    Licensing of non-native biocontrol agents

    Background information on the legislation and procedures in place for issuing of licences to release non-native biocontrol agents in England under Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

  • NCPPB

    NCPPB

    The National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria houses virtually all known bacterial plant pathogens of importance to the Agricultural and Horticultural sectors. Strains are supplied freeze dried in glass ampoules and also as live cultures on agar for diagnostic, research, and Industrial applications.