Website help
Site audience and purpose
This site is intended to cover the information needs of many different potential audiences - the general public, consumers, farmers and growers, the food industry and associated professionals, schoolchildren, students, teachers and academics and so on. It is structured to present simple information first, with an indication of more detail further into the site.
Feedback
We welcome any feedback and suggestions on what you would like us to publish on the site, or on any technical problems you may have with the site. Please e-mail the Animal Health Webmaster.
Site navigation
Since there is a large amount and wide variety of information on our site, you may find it simpler to use our A-Z index as an aid to finding the information you want.
Page layout - finding your way around
Most pages on the site are in a standard format, similar to the page you are looking at now. This has been tested on a variety of browsers and platforms. It is designed to display best with your monitor set at a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels, but should generally display without difficulty at lower computer screen resolutions.
On each page which follows this format you can see which subject area of the site you are in (the site's major subject areas are listed on the home page) by looking at the main heading at the top of the screen. Immediately below this heading you will find a number of links to key pages of the site - these should be the same, whichever page you look at.
On many pages you will see a navigation section under the Animal Health logo, showing you where you are within the hierarchy of the site, and providing links back up to more general pages in the same area. For example:
You are here: Homepage > About Us > Contact us
The left hand side of the screen will normally contain links to closely related pages on the same subject.
At the foot of the page you will find information on the date the page was last modified, and further links to key pages on the site.
Searching
You can search the text files on the Defra website by using the Search button above to bring up the search screen. Please enter the word or words to look for in the box, then start the search by pressing Enter.
Downloading files or documents
You are advised to save large files or files that you need to work on (interactive PDF forms, Excel or Word documents) onto your computer.
On your PC using Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser:
right click the link
slect "save target as"
choose a suitable location on your PC
On your PC using Netscape web browser:
right click on the link
choose "savelink as"
choose a suitable location on your PC
File Formats
This site principally uses files of the following five types:
(Users will need to have the correct software loaded on their machines to make full use of the information available.)
HTML
HTML is the basic file format used on the Internet, this page is in HTML format. It is our policy to make as much information as possible in this format. Sometimes, for technical reasons, some data may be made available in the following alternative formats.
PDF
Documents marked PDF are saved in Portable Document Format (PDF). To read them you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader software is available for downloading free of charge.
Viewers with visual difficulties may find it useful to investigate services provided by Adobe to improve the accessibility of Adobe Acrobat documents -http://www.adobe.com.
Note: We do not normally publish scanned documents but very occasionally this is unavoidable. We will try to make such documents as accessible as possible, but if you are unable to read any scanned documents, do contact us and we will endeavour to provide the material in a more accessible format.
DOC
DOC is the file type for documents created using Microsoft WORD. This is a widely used word processing package.
XLS
XLS is the file type for documents created using Microsoft EXCEL. This is a widely used spreadsheet package.
CSV
CSV stands for Comma Separated Values and is the spreadsheet equivalent of .txt for word processors. You can cut and paste a CSV file into the spreadsheet of your choice or download to your PC.
