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Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
To sell food and drink products, the label must be: clear and easy to read…
You must show the following information: the name of the food a ‘best…
If your food or drink product has 2 or more ingredients (including any…
You must show an appropriate warning on the label if your food contains…
Nutrition labelling You must follow nutrition labelling information rules…
If you’re a retailer, you can label products ‘organic’ as long as: at…
If you run a food business you must have a hazard analysis plan (HACCP) to meet food safety and hygiene standards
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Give information to consumers when selling food that is loose or hasn't been prepacked by another producer.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Controls on UK food and feed imports, checks and inspections of high-risk food at UK borders, fees and documentation for importers.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
How to use ‘on hold’ health claims that are still under consideration in the EU in Great Britain.
How to improve school food and schoolchildren's diets.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
Register of nutrition and health claims that may be made in commercial communications in Great Britain.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
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