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Who gets inspected

All permitted intensive pig and poultry farms are inspected.

What gets inspected

皇冠体育app Environment Agency checks all structures on the farm including:

• animal housing
• oil and chemical storage, feed storage, carcass storage
• foot dips
• drainage systems
• slurry or manure stores

Your farm records are inspected, including:

• training records
• complaints procedure
• energy use, raw materials, water use, waste and carcass disposal
• livestock numbers
• feed dockets
• manure export and soil and manure nutrient analysis

Your plans are inspected, including:

• accident management plan
• inspection and maintenance plan
• odour management plan
• noise management plan
• manure management plan

You might get an inspection from a certification body appointed under the Pig and Poultry Assurance Scheme. 皇冠体育appse are very similar to the Environment Agency inspection.

Time and length

If you鈥檙e a member of the Pig and Poultry Assurance Scheme, you will be inspected once a year over a 3 year period. 皇冠体育app Environment Agency will do one inspection and a certification body will do the other 2.

If you are not in the Pig and Poultry Assurance Scheme, how often you鈥檙e inspected will depend on the risk of pollution from your farm.

You鈥檒l get up to 14 days鈥� notice of an inspection, which usually takes 2 hours.

What happens next

皇冠体育app Environment Agency sends you a Compliance Assessment Report setting out any actions that you need to take. You鈥檒l get a follow-up visit from the Environment Agency if you have serious problems meeting the standards.