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How to display the legal name for your food product.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
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.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
The combined views of experts from academia, industry and government captured at roundtables about a range of topics can be found in the summary meeting notes below.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
This briefing paper addresses the opportunities to limit the number of fast food takeaways (especially near schools) and ways to make fast food offers healthier.
The Department for Business and Trade has announced the 10 SME winners of the 2024 Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards.
The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 fix the inoperability of retained EU law on the monitoring of temperatures in the means of transport, warehousing and storage of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for human consumption. The instrument also amends The...
Healthy Start is an NHS scheme that helps women who are pregnant or have young children and are receiving benefits, buy foods such as milk or fruit.
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