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Get help to classify rice and related products for direct human consumption for import and export.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
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.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Work to develop the Government Chemist capabilities in food fraud through the identification and quantification of food adulterants.
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
The diagnosis, management and epidemiology of Bacillus spp.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
The UK Health Security Agency's (UKHSA) FW&E laboratories protect the public from significant health threats associated with food, water and environmental hazards.
Information about the UK food chain.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Applications, changes and cancellations for consideration under the UK geographical indications (GI) schemes, how to object and appeal against decisions.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
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