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You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
Guidance for businesses on OPSS border controls.
Advice for consumers in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the UK.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Find out which food and animal feed goods qualify for unfettered access and can move from Northern Ireland to Great Britain without sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) controls.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
This study interviewed 64 operators about experiences with foodborne diseases and explanations and expectations around meat safety
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
How to care for animals on farms and at market in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Freight forwarders oversee the worldwide movement of cargo, packing, documentation and customs clearance, on behalf of importers and exporters.
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