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Advice on ingredients in nicotine-containing liquids in electronic cigarettes and refill containers.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Apply to temporarily include a non-organic ingredient in organic food or drink you sell in the UK.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Check which ingredients to use to make cider or perry that qualifies for Cider Duty rates. If you use other ingredients, you must pay Wine Duty rates instead.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Use this form to apply to use a non-organic ingredient in your organic food or drink.
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.
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
OPSS would like to invite any interested parties to submit any scientific information relevant to the safety assessment of cosmetic ingredients.
The campaign supports the IPO's commitments to raise public understanding, and ultimately respect, for IP rights.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
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