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Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
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 petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
This document contains the following information: Cat and dog foods: a report on the supply in the United Kingdom of cat and dog foods.
The government's summary of a proposed EU regulation on the labelling of organic pet food.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Form to apply for approval to use animal by-products (ABPs) to make pet food.
Apply online to export canned and processed dry or semi-moist pet food, which may contain dairy but no other material from ruminant animals or processed animal protein (PAP) from mammals, to India.
The government's summary of EU regulation (EU) 2023/2419 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the labelling of organic pet food.
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