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Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Controls on UK food and feed imports, checks and inspections of high-risk food at UK borders, fees and documentation for importers.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Abattoirs in the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme must abide by the regulations for dressing, weighing, grading and marking carcases.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
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 other meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
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