The second annual newsletter by Trading Standards professionals has been launched, offering useful information on a range of different topics for north Wales’ farmers.
The 2014 North Wales Animal Health and Welfare Panel Newsletter has been drawn-up by the heads of the six north Wales council’s trading standards teams and provides the area’s farmers with guidance on a range of matters. Articles look at matters including changes to the rules on recording sheep movements; new legislation to deal with the fly grazing of horses; the reporting of pig movements; the requirement to register for feed hygiene: the latest on tuberculosis in cattle; and more.
The newsletter also includes important contact details for all six north Wales trading standards teams.
This is the second time that Animal Health and Trading Standards services across the region – Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham – have come together to create a newsletter of this kind.
It acknowledges the growing relationship between the six counties, at a time when animal health and trading standards teams across north Wales are formally working collaboratively on a range of functions, including animal health and welfare.
Electronic copies of the newsletter will be available from the websites of every council involved or via farming unions NFU and FUW. Hard copies will also be available from Council offices across north Wales, as well as livestock markets and other agricultural establishments within the six counties.
