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Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Suppliers display some of Scotland's best-loved food, drink and other iconic exports ahead of Burns Night
Apply for meals at home from your council or other local organisation
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
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.
Rules for importing organic food, feed and seed to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
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.
The Trust was the advisor to government on school meals and children’s food. It became an independent body in 2011 and was renamed the Children’s Food Trust.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
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