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Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
UK poultry statistics.
Apply to manufacture Extemporaneous preparations, Autogenous vaccines, authorisations for Equine Stem Cell Centre (ESCCA) or Non-Food Animal Blood Bank (NFABBA).
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
List of Field Safety Notices from 22 to 26 April 2024.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
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.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
You can claim relief to pay no duty or VAT when importing laboratory animals intended for scientific research.
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 live poultry to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
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