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Find out the requirements for importing organic products and when you need a certificate of inspection (COI).
Check the definition of composite products and understand the import rules and restrictions, depending on the ingredients in your food product.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Services provided and contact details for Veterinary Investigation Centres (VICs) and surveillance pathology partners in England and Wales.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
Guidance on health and identification marks that must be applied to products of animal origin (POAO) such as meat, egg products, fish, cheese and milk.
List of organisations that issue horse passports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Use this service to tell the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) about a change to your kept bird record or to confirm your details every 12 months.
Establishments approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and how competent authorities can change the establishment list.
Guidance to help food businesses meet labelling requirements for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food
How to apply for Capital grants plans or a Capital grants study and how to manage your funding agreement.
How to register for the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme to move or sell food in Northern Ireland.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
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 to register and apply for approval as an animal feed business that makes, markets or uses animal feed.
Guidance for exporters in England, Scotland and Wales on applying for an export health certificate.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
Get permission to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
Guidance if you are intending to slaughter animals for human consumption or as food for other animals.
What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.
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