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You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
Information about the UK food chain.
Labelling and handling food, transporting, food safety
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
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.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Check if you need a certificate to export animal feed or pet food, and other rules you must follow.
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
The rail franchising schedule.
This factsheet is for tied pub tenants who want information about pub franchise agreements.
Guidelines about the rail franchise competition process used by Department for Transport staff and advisers.
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