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Labelling and handling food, transporting, food safety
Check if you'll need an import licence and what import duty you'll need to pay when importing certain agricultural goods and food from outside the UK.
A list of goods and services showing which rates of VAT apply and which items are exempt or outside the scope of VAT.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
Trading hours for retailers, restrictions on Sunday opening and public holiday opening in England, Wales and Scotland
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Information about the UK food chain.
Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
Guidance for businesses on OPSS border controls.
Using an ecological momentary assessment to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
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.
Prescoed is a men’s open prison and young offender institution (YOI) in the village of Coed-y-Paen, South Wales. It is managed jointly with Usk Prison.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 1 May 2024.
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.
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