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Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Get help to classify rice and related products for direct human consumption for import and export.
Form for poultry keepers to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency of chickens kept for meat production.
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.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
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