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Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
A list of herbal ingredients which are banned or restricted for unlicensed medicines.
How to apply for a traditional herbal registration including a list of banned ingredients and granted herbal medicines.
Buses and coaches used for practical driving tests have to meet certain rules, and some must also carry a minimum weight.
Information to support your recovery after COVID-19.
For the first time in the UK, obese patients and people who are overweight with weight-related health problems could now have access to Mounjaro, currently used for Type 2 diabetes, to help manage their weight and support weight loss.
Marketing standards for hops producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
From 1 January 2014 herbal smoking products will have Tobacco Products Duty charged on them unless they are to be used exclusively for medical purposes.
Training tools providing evidence-based healthy weight messages for the public health workforce to use in discussions with children, young people and families.
More people living with obesity will have access to the newest and most effective obesity drugs to help cut NHS waiting lists, following the announcement of a £40 million two-year pilot today [Wednesday 7 June].
A patient alert card is being introduced for men taking finasteride to help raise awareness of the risk of psychiatric side effects and sexual dysfunction, including the potential for sexual dysfunction to persist after treatment has stopped. Healthcare professionals are...
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.
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