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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.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when a waste collection authority, or contractors working on their behalf, can store food waste.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
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 Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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