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How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Check if you should submit a standardised exchange of information using the EU Customs Trader Portal for inward or outward processing.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Check if an inward or outward processing authorisation requires an economic test to test the impact the authorisation holder's goods have on UK producers.
Find out if goods you bring into Northern Ireland can be declared 'not at risk’ of moving to the EU and how to make a 'not at risk’ declaration.
Find out how to make fertiliser from processed ABPs including bonemeal, and if you need approval to manufacture, store or transport it.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Exporters of groups of products of animal origin (POAO) to the EU and Northern Ireland can join the groupage export facilitation scheme (GEFS) to use 30-day support attestations.
Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU to Great Britain.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – using process evaluations to explain how complex interventions work.
An explanation of how UKHSA processes your personal data when you apply to access it for secondary purposes
Find out how you can use, process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared for a customs special procedure.
You can claim a relief to pay less Customs Duty and VAT if you re-import goods to the UK.
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.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you are applying from outside the UK.
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