As part of the EFRA Select Committee, we travelled to Germany to visit the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI). This was to greater understand how they address farm animal health and welfare for lessons to be learnt for the UK. FLI’s work aims at the prevention, diagnostics and control of animal diseases, the improvement of animal welfare and animal nutrition as well as the preservation and use of farm animal genetic resources. Our biosecurity is of vital importance and we must get this right. We also travelled to Berlin where we met our equivalent EFRA Select Committee to understand their concerns and priorities.
