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Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Greater policy emphasis is needed on the multiple-win agenda that couples school meals with benefits to agriculture, education and nutrition
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Sustainable food system indicators for the UK.
Foresight project looking at the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050.
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.
Rules for importing organic food, feed and seed to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Data and statistics of journey times to key services, covering food stores, education, health care, town centres and employment centres.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Events courses and programmes to develop skills, knowledge and networks for chief executive officers, deputy-CEOs and their equivalents in public service.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
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