About us

What we do

• Our Role
• Our day to day work
• Protecting public health
• Animal welfare and international trade
• Contingency planning and readiness for exotic disease outbreaks
• Emergencies
• Working with others
• The future
• History

With others we develop, refine and test the nation's contingency plans for managing exotic disease outbreaks.

Together with others we seek to learn lessons from our experience of disease outbreaks and exercises to continually improve.

We also periodically assess and report on our response capability.

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