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Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food 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.
Information about the UK food chain.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
Guidance for schools and local authorities about providing school meals including information on free school meal eligibility.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
This collection brings together publications by PHE relating to schools and school food.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
Foresight project looking at the increasing pressures on the global food system between now and 2050.
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
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