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Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Work to develop the Government Chemist capabilities in food fraud through the identification and quantification of food adulterants.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
How to label spirit drinks that you plan to sell in the UK.
Guidance following recommendations from the Commission on Human Medicines.
List of controlled goods that follow the normal import declaration rules if HMRC apply continuity plans due to system issues.
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...
Guidance and advice from the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC).
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Resource for the public and those professionals responding to chemical incidents, including emergency services and public health professionals.
The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) is a non-statutory, independent body of scientific experts that advises the Food Standards Agency on any matters relating to novel foods (including genetically modified foods) and novel processes (including food irradiation)....
COC advises the government and government agencies on whether substances are likely to cause cancer.
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