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How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
Emerging Insights from DFID funded food markets programme in East and Southern Africa.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
How to import or move animal by-products from the EU to Great Britain.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
Exporters of groups of products of animal origin (POAO) to the EU and Northern Ireland can join the groupage export facilitation scheme (GEFS) to use 30-day support attestations.
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.
How product specific rules are used to identify the country of origin when importing or exporting between the UK and EU.
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other government bodies on matters concerning the toxicity...
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
How to move goods, in parcels or large letters, between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Rules you must follow to use a food or drink name registered and protected by a UK geographical indication (GI) scheme, and penalties if you do not comply.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
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