Producing and distributing food

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Services

1. Get help and support for your business

   Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business

2. Food business registration

   You must register with the council to run a food business - fines, penalties

3. Food labelling and packaging

   Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards

4. Food safety - your responsibilities

   The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations

5. Importing food

   Importing food, including organic produce and GM foods

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Guidance and regulation

1. Prepare your food and drink business for a no-deal Brexit
   • Detailed guide
   • 27 August 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
2. Exporting animals and animal products in a no-deal Brexit
   • Detailed guide
   • 6 September 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
3. Food labelling changes if there's a no-deal Brexit
   • Detailed guide
   • 23 August 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
4. Food labelling: giving food information to consumers
   • Detailed guide
   • 29 November 2017
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
5. Find a professional to certify export health certificates
   • Guidance
   • 11 June 2019
   • Animal and Plant Health Agency

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News and communications

5 September 2019 — Press release

Natasha's legacy becomes law

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency

1. Collaborating with Queen’s University to improve coffee authenticity
   • 18 July 2019
   • Government Chemist
   • News story
2. Government Chemist hosts MFAN meeting
   • 16 July 2019
   • Government Chemist
   • News story
3. GC supports IFST Lecture ‘Ultra-processed foods: The science and the policy’
   • 5 July 2019
   • Government Chemist
   • News story
4. Webinar recording July 2019: an update from Christine Tacon
   • 5 July 2019
   • Groceries Code Adjudicator
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Pesticide residues in food: quarterly monitoring results for 2019
   • 6 September 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Health and Safety Executive
   • Research
2. GC publishes a technical report on mycotoxin screening using QuEChERS
   • 21 August 2019
   • Government Chemist
   • Research
3. Pesticide residues in food: quarterly monitoring results for 2018
   • 14 August 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Health and Safety Executive
   • Research
4. Food and You: 2018
   • 25 April 2019
   • Food Standards Agency
   • Official statistics
5. Pesticide usage survey: outdoor vegetable crops in the United Kingdom, 2017
   • 28 February 2019
   • Health and Safety Executive
   • National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Food labelling: changing food allergen information laws
   • 25 June 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 29 March 2019
2. Food labelling: amending laws
   • 5 February 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 04 December 2018
3. Protected Food Name scheme: improving enforcement
   • 25 January 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 02 November 2018
4. GCA Forecasting and Promotions best practice statement
   • 25 June 2018
   • Groceries Code Adjudicator
   • Policy paper
5. GCA Forecasting best practice statement
   • 23 March 2016
   • Groceries Code Adjudicator
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Find a GSCOP training provider
   • 28 March 2019
   • Groceries Code Adjudicator
   • Transparency
2. Export of pig meat and offal to China in 2011 to 2012
   • 25 June 2015
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Foi release
3. EuropaBio event and Bayer meeting in January 2014
   • 22 January 2015
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Foi release
4. Contacts with Oxitec Ltd since 1 January 2013
   • 21 January 2015
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Foi release
5. UK imports of marine and other fish
   • 14 January 2015
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
2. Rural Payments Agency
3. Animal & Plant Health Agency
4. Groceries Code Adjudicator
5. Public Health England

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1. Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
2. Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
3. Department for International Trade
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
6. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
7. Department for International Development
8. Department for Transport
9. Department of Health & Social Care
10. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
11. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland

1. Government Chemist
2. British Cattle Movement Service
3. Environment Agency
4. Natural England
5. UK Space Agency

Explore sub-topics

1. Crops and horticulture
2. Dairy and milk production
3. Egg production and marketing
4. Food labelling and safety
5. Import, export and distribution of food
6. Meat production
7. Sugar