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Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
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.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Auerbach on 19 April 2024.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
How to change the specification of a product name registered under the UK GI schemes, and object to a substantial change.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Protected food name with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
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