Received 27 July 2023
Decided
Part-Granted
Request Reference 23/242
Requester Type Other
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

‘I would like a copy of the data on bee diseases, including the approximate area where bee diseases have been identified, along with the numbers of cases of positive tests, for the years 2021, 2022, and to date for 2023, in particular covering AFB, EFB, Challkbrood, and Vairimorpha (Nosema)’. ‘I would further like to know DAFM's protocols for a serious contagious infection like foot & mouth disease (FMD), since American Foulbrood is the beekeeper's FMD and I would expect some corresponding protocol to be put in place. And, of course, I would like to know DAFM's protocols for American Foulbrood itself’.