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Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate (HMI) investigation finds quality defects and labelling offences in fruit and veg
Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate investigation finds quality defects and labelling offences in fruit and veg
Exports of our fruit and vegetable juices have increased by almost 40% since 2010 worth a record £65 million last year.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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