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Work to develop the Government Chemist capabilities in food fraud through the identification and quantification of food adulterants.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
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.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Information about the UK food chain.
This is a list of all the opinions the RPC issued in 2014 on Food Standards Agency (FSA) measures.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
Sustainable food system indicators for the UK.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Applications, changes and cancellations for consideration under the UK geographical indications (GI) schemes, how to object and appeal against decisions.
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