What are the measures that are required under the Animal Gatherings Order for ‘personal biosecurity’?
Schedule 2 of the Animal Gatherings (England) Order 2004 lists a number of requirements that people attending an animal gathering must comply with. These are that: • You must not enter licensed premises wearing outer clothing visibly contaminated with animal excreta or other contaminant derived from animals (animal products). • If your outer clothing becomes visibly contaminated with animal excreta or animal products in the animal area, on leaving the animal area you must cleanse and disinfect it, change into clean clothing, dispose of your clothing or leave the licensed premises. • On leaving the animal area, you must cleanse and disinfect your footwear in the footbath provided. • You must not bring onto or take off the premises a vehicle or equipment visibly contaminated with animal excreta or other animal products. This does not apply if the contamination is only from the animals being carried on the vehicle at the time it enters or leaves the premises; or, as long as the contaminat
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