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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It works with local authorities to enforce food safety regulations and its staff work in meat plants to check the standards...
Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
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.
How to object to an application to register for UK geographical indication (GI) protection, change or cancel a product specification and how to appeal against a decision.
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other government bodies on matters concerning the toxicity...
Food-specific regulations you have to comply with in addition to other import and export rules
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) is an independent scientific committee that provides expert advice to government on microbiological issues and food. ACMSF is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Food Standards Agency .
Sustainable food system indicators for the UK.
Annual statistics about food and drink purchases in the UK.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
Official certificates in English and EU languages to export or move HRFNAO to the EU or Northern Ireland.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
This collection brings together publications by PHE relating to schools and school food.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export HRFNAO to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Details of control bodies approved to certify organic food in the UK.
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