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How to display the legal name for your food product.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Blogs where government organisations talk about their work and share information and ideas.
Guidance on exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) from Great Britain to the EU or Northern Ireland.
Find a customs agent or fast parcel operator to help you with import and export declarations.
What you need to do as a food and drink business to work with the EU.
Foresight project looking at the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050.
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...
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
Applications, changes and cancellations for consideration under the UK geographical indications (GI) schemes, how to object and appeal against decisions.
Check what customs charges apply when using a fast parcel operator to make import and export customs declarations.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
PC Ady Bebb successfully broke the Guinness World Record for ‘Fastest Marathon dressed as a Road Vehicle’ during the London Marathon recently.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Find out about the long-term effects some people can have after having COVID-19.
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