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You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
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 the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
The symptoms, diagnosis, management, surveillance and epidemiology of salmonella.
If you run a food business you must have a hazard analysis plan (HACCP) to meet food safety and hygiene standards
What you need to do as a food and drink business to work with the EU.
Check the tariff classification for electromechanical food processors.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
Rules for exporting or moving organic food, feed and seed from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Submissions related to human medicines need to be submitted directly to the MHRA.
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