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Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
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.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
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.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
Apply for a nutritional product to be considered by the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances (ACBS).
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
Information and advice on submitting a nutritional product to the Advisory Committee for Borderline Substances (ACBS).
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
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