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• Site audience and purpose
• Site design and navigation
• Searching
• Copyright
• Acronyms
• File formats

Site audience and purpose

This site is intended to cover the information needs of 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.

Site navigation

We have restructured some folders on our new site, and will be doing further restructuring over the next few months. It will therefore be some time before we can supply a new site map.

Searching

You can search the text files on the DEFRA website by using the Search button below 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.

You can look for several words either singly or in combination. You can also exclude words. For example:

to find pages containing information about sheep, enter:

sheep

to find pages containing information about sheep, beef or pigs, enter:

sheep beef pigs

to find pages containing information about both sheep and pigs, enter:

sheep and pigs

to find pages containing information about sheep, but not those that contain information about beef, enter:

sheep not beef

Remember that there are many synonyms for the terms used in this service. For example, you might find more information if you searched for sheep, lamb and mutton.

Copyright

This material is Crown copyright but may be reproduced without formal permission or charge for personal or in-house use. Permission to reproduce any of this material other than for personal or in-house use should be sought from:

HMSO Copyright Unit
St Clements House
2 - 16 Colegate
Norwich
NR3 1BQ

Fax: +44 (0)1603 723000
Email: licensing@hmso.gov.uk

File Formats

This site 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. Some times, for technical reasons, some data may be made available in the following alternative formats.

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.

PDF

Documents marked ".PDF" are saved in Portable Document Format (PDF). To read them you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available free of charge.

Click here to download Acrobat Reader Software.

Viewers with visual difficulties may find it useful to investigate services provided by Adobe to improve the accessibility of Adobe Acrobat documents - http://access.adobe.com

This page was last updated: 22 November, 2001