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Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing other animal products for human consumption (such as honey or snails) to Great Britain.
This guide explains Defra’s trade classifications, including Food, Feed & Drink (FFD), which group commodity codes into clear and meaningful categories. These classifications provide a consistent framework for analysing …
A closed grant to fund items to improve using water for irrigation, and to secure water supplies for crop irrigation.
How to get refrigerated or heated vans, trucks and trailers approved to transport perishable food in or out of the UK, and the documents you need to have.
Details of poultry establishments that are approved members of the Poultry Health Scheme (PHS).
You need to tell the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) if the structure of your business is changing.
Guidelines on the conduct of taste trials involving novel foods or foods produced by novel processes.
What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.
Use this licence to move live animals out of one bluetongue restricted zone into another bluetongue restricted zone.
Food additives authorisation requirements and what you need to submit as part of your application.
How to comply with food regulations that aim to reduce contamination of meat and maintain safety for consumers.
Earned Recognition aims to reduce the burden for compliant businesses by enabling Competent Authorities to focus their food and feed official controls on those that are less compliant.
The measures that must be taken by animal feed businesses to legally trade feed between GB, NI, the EU, and non-EU countries from 1 January 2021.
A composite product is defined in legislation as a foodstuff intended for human consumption that contains both processed products of animal origin and products of plant origin.
Recognised breed societies for bovine, ovine, porcine and caprine species, and recognised breed operations for hybrid breeding pigs.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
List of the fish names (commercial designations) accepted at the point of retail in the United Kingdom.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.
Requirements for genetically modified organisms as food and feed authorisations and what you need to submit as part of your application.
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