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Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
Find out about applying for the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, how to submit brand information, fees and making sure your production process is compliant.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
How to label spirit drinks that you plan to sell in the UK.
A list of herbal ingredients which are banned or restricted for unlicensed medicines.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
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.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Subject content for GCSE in single science which was introduced in 2016.
Section last updated: April 2024.
How to apply for an authorisation to manufacture authorised veterinary medicines or medicines marketed under the Exemptions for small pet animals.
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