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Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
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.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
A list of goods and services showing which rates of VAT apply and which items are exempt or outside the scope of VAT.
Emerging Insights from DFID funded food markets programme in East and Southern Africa.
How you import from and export to Japan.
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
Guidance for EU exporters, exporters from rest of the world and UK importers, on how to import groupage or mixed load consignments of animal products into Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Official certificates in English and EU languages to export or move HRFNAO to the EU or Northern Ireland.
VICH consultation until 30 November 2024 on guidelines relating to the technical requirements for demonstrating genotoxic safety of residues of veterinary drugs in human food.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
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...
News, economics and statistics relating to the UK’s farming and food industries.
This series brings together all documents relating to Government Chemist reviews of changes in food and feed legislation affecting the UK.
Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning
Guidance on exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) from Great Britain to the EU or Northern Ireland.
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