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Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
Form to apply for approval to use animal by-products (ABPs) to make pet food.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
This document contains the following information: Cat and dog foods: a report on the supply in the United Kingdom of cat and dog foods.
Your business must be registered if you make, use or sell animal feed or place former food products for human consumption in the animal feed chain
Apply online to export pet food and other products for feeding to cats and dogs to Morocco.
The government's summary of a proposed EU regulation on the labelling of organic pet food.
Apply online to export pet food or dog chews to Chile.
Apply online to export processed pet food made using ingredients of animal origin to the Philippines.
Apply online to export canned and processed dry or semi-moist pet food, which may contain dairy but no other material from ruminant animals or processed animal protein (PAP) from mammals, to India.
The government's summary of EU regulation (EU) 2023/2419 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023 on the labelling of organic pet food.
Use these forms and guidance documents to export pet food of avain origin to the USA.
Apply online to export pet food to Hong Kong.
Apply online to export feathermeal, or mixtures containing feathermeal, for pet food production to South Africa.
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