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Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Sources of advice and financial support for UK farmers exporting agricultural products to the EU and beyond
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Find out about the goods that are restricted and controlled when importing or exporting merchandise in your baggage.
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Find out about the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme.
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.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
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.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out about exporting products of animal origin (POAO) such as meat, dairy and fish, live animals, plants and plant products.
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...
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
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