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Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
When you can use a designated UK-based conformity assessment body (CAB) to test your goods against the importing market’s regulations.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
This series brings together all documents relating to Chemicals: risk reduction strategies
How the government monitors imports into the UK.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
Controlled chemicals, drug precursor chemicals and hazardous chemicals.
Order a certificate of free sale to export medical devices outside the UK.
We are producing guidance and information for industry, healthcare professionals and patients covering the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
How to apply for an exemption to use a restricted substance to manufacture electrical and electronic equipment.
Resource for the public and those professionals responding to chemical incidents, including emergency services and public health professionals.
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