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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.
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.
How to get refrigerated or heated vans, trucks and trailers approved to transport perishable food in or out of the UK, and the documents you need to have.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Find out about exporting products of animal origin (POAO) such as meat, dairy and fish, live animals, plants and plant products.
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.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Applications, changes and cancellations for consideration under the UK geographical indications (GI) schemes, how to object and appeal against decisions.
Webinars on changes to importing food and drink, including composite food and fishery products from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
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