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Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Environment Secretary invites people to raise a glass to UK farmers and food producers this Christmas.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
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.
Suppliers display some of Scotland's best-loved food, drink and other iconic exports ahead of Burns Night
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection.
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.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
The government is introducing new measures to limit the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)
Rules for importing organic food, feed and seed to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
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