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Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
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.
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.
This document contains the following information: Cat and dog foods: a report on the supply in the United Kingdom of cat and dog foods.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
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.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
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