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The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
If your business deals in food you must: make sure food is safe to eat…
Part of complying with food safety is managing food hygiene. Hazard…
You can be inspected by your local council at any point in the food…
You must tell the Food Standards Agency (FSA) if you think any food your…
Food-specific regulations you have to comply with in addition to other import and export rules
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Guidance on the handling of slurry and manure to help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
The symptoms, diagnosis, management, surveillance and epidemiology of salmonella.
Labelling and handling food, transporting, food safety
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
This guidance provides information on COVID-19 in homelessness, domestic abuse refuge, respite room and asylum seeker accommodation settings.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
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