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Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
To sell food and drink products, the label must be: clear and easy to read…
You must show the following information: the name of the food a ‘best…
If your food or drink product has 2 or more ingredients (including any…
You must show an appropriate warning on the label if your food contains…
Nutrition labelling You must follow nutrition labelling information rules…
If you’re a retailer, you can label products ‘organic’ as long as: at…
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
Energy Security Secretary has told Parliament that with growing geopolitical tension, the best agricultural land must be protected for food security.
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
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.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
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