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You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
The home of Food Standards Agency on GOV.UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It works with local authorities to enforce food safety regu…
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
The documents you need and the border checks your import must pass to import from non-EU countries.
If you run a food business you must have a hazard analysis plan (HACCP) to meet food safety and hygiene standards
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
‘Natasha’s Law’ introduced to protect allergy sufferers and give them confidence in the food they buy.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export other animal by-products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands…
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Your business must be registered if you make, use or sell animal feed or place former food products for human consumption in the animal feed chain
Results of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) rolling programme for 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016.
Results of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) rolling programme for 2008 and 2009 to 2011 and 2012.
Give information to consumers when selling food that is loose or hasn't been prepacked by another producer.
Annual assessment report of radioactivity in food and the environment and the public's exposure to radiation.
Apply for a temporary certificate of competence (CoC) to slaughter or kill animals under Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (WATOK) regulations.
Emails from the Food Standard Agency about problems with food on the market
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
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