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Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Apply online to export pet food containing meat and meat products, excluding beef to Singapore.
How to get approval for operating plants handling or processing meat in England and Wales.
Use these forms and guidance document to export food products with a low amount of meat, milk or egg to the EU, to then be sent to countries outside the EU.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
The Meat Hygiene Service was set up in 1995 and was responsible for the enforcement of meat hygiene legislation. The Service merged with the Food Standards Agency in 2010.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
How to get refrigerated or heated vans, trucks and trailers approved to transport perishable food in or out of the UK, and the documents you need to have.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
Use these forms to export canned food, 'salamis' and other types of ready-to-eat meat products to The Customs Territory of the Eurasian Economic Union
Use these forms and guidance document to export pet food with no materials of bovine origin, no mammalian meat and no bone meal, to Switzerland.
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