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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.
What you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
The rules about product labelling - including special rules for retailers and manufacturers in different business sectors (like food, jewellery and toys)
Marketing standards for hops producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to ensure the products you make or import comply with the law and are safe for consumers to use.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
This guidance provides information on comparator products used in studies supporting abridged marketing authorisation applications
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.
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
The product and service community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about managing products and services in government.
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
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.
This guidance provides an overview of the different tariffs for products exported to the UK under the DCTS, including how to identify commodity codes.
Find out which standards and regulations apply to your product and how to make sure you follow the right procedures.
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on who can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
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