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Information about the UK food chain.
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.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition - cooperation frameworks
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
News, economics and statistics relating to the UK’s farming and food industries.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
A research project to develop a new global network tool for food safety notifications.
You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Emerging Insights from DFID funded food markets programme in East and Southern Africa.
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.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) is an independent scientific committee that provides expert advice to government on microbiological issues and food. ACMSF is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Food Standards Agency .
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
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