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The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
If your business deals in food you must: make sure food is safe to eat…
Part of complying with food safety is managing food hygiene. Hazard…
You can be inspected by your local council at any point in the food…
You must tell the Food Standards Agency (FSA) if you think any food your…
Food-specific regulations you have to comply with in addition to other import and export rules
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
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