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Support for school breakfast club provision.
Product recall for Lucy & Leo magnetic breakfast cooking set presenting a high risk of choking due to easy access to small parts.
Review of the available published evidence on the links between skipping breakfast and short-term cognition and memory.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
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 which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Rules for importing organic food, feed and seed to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Annual statistics about food and drink purchases in the UK.
Table showing quarterly figures for 2007 to 2012 by individual local authorities.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
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.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
News, economics and statistics relating to the UK’s farming and food industries.
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