15 June 2010
ADAS is delivering a series of workshops as part of the Livestock Health South East Project. These events will be...
20 May 2010
The manufacture, quality control, registration, distribution and packaging of veterinary medicines are controlled by a plethora of European Regulations and...
07 April 2010
Plunge dipping of sheep in water both to wash fleeces and as a way to control ectoparasites has been carried...
09 February 2010
Infectious disease is still the most important veterinary problem in farm animal medicine. While there are vaccines available for many...
20 January 2010
Hydatid disease is a serious parasitic zoonotic condition associated with sheep farming in the UK and many other parts of...
18 January 2010
The practice of rearing pigs outside for part or all of their life has seen a dramatic increase over the...
15 January 2010
ADAS, together with industry professionals and a Veterinary Animal Health Officer, are to hold 10 early evening workshops (7 pm...
09 October 2009
ADAS has a series of projects assessing the impacts of changing availability of pesticides. This follows changes to EU...
13 August 2009
The use of all medicines, both veterinary and human carries the potential for risk of harm to the environment. Some...
29 June 2009
Defra has commissioned ADAS to review the conservation and education
activities carried out by zoos. Since 2003, the Zoo Licensing Act...
25 June 2009
Ticks represent a risk to humans, farm and pet animals and recent climatic changes have allowed a marked increase in...
03 June 2009
A recent article on 'Swine Influenza and Factory Farming' produced by CIWF suggested a link to human health from farming...
14 May 2009
Zoonoses are diseases that can spread from animals to man or indeed vice versa. They have been with us throughout...
06 April 2009
A collaborative research project led by ADAS has found that venison not only contains significantly less fat than other red...
02 April 2009
A series of crises in the European Union (EU) in the latter part of the last century, including the BSE...
02 April 2009
Economists and agricultural scientists tend to be optimistic in their assessment of the world's ability to support its rapidly growing...
02 April 2009
The development of resistance is a major issue in both human and veterinary medicine. It impacts on the availability and...