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Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
To sell food and drink products, the label must be: clear and easy to read…
You must show the following information: the name of the food a ‘best…
If your food or drink product has 2 or more ingredients (including any…
You must show an appropriate warning on the label if your food contains…
Nutrition labelling You must follow nutrition labelling information rules…
If you’re a retailer, you can label products ‘organic’ as long as: at…
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Greater policy emphasis is needed on the multiple-win agenda that couples school meals with benefits to agriculture, education and nutrition
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Information about the UK food chain.
A collection of documents explaining the background to the 'Family Food' publication and the methods used.
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