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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
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 fats to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Find out what animal by-products you can use to make biodiesel, whether you need approval, how to process them and how to use the products.
Product recall for L(A)B Cryo Fat Loss Belt presenting a risk of electric shock.
Check the tariff classification for bones with some meat, fat and tendons (so called soup bones).
Form for biodiesel producers to apply for approval to make biodiesel from animal by-products.
Product recall for Firming Cream presenting a serious chemical risk.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on deep peat within a protected site.
The T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
How to get approval to burn poultry manure in a combustion unit on your farm or holding.
Malcolm Burns joined the Government Chemist programme in October 2000. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of molecular biology and is also the Manager for the UK National Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Organisms in Food...
The D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
We want your views on our proposal for a total online advertising restriction for HFSS products to reduce the amount of HFSS advertising children are exposed to online.
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