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Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
The government is introducing new measures to limit the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)
Information about the UK food chain.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
Work to develop the Government Chemist capabilities in food fraud through the identification and quantification of food adulterants.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Sustainable food system indicators for the UK.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Statistics about crops grown in the UK for non-food use.
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