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Supplementary guidance to help businesses understand their responsibilities when conducting taste trials involving novel foods.
MCA criteria for visual inspection of immersion suits stored in airtight packaging.
Check which ingredients to use to make cider or perry that qualifies for Cider Duty rates. If you use other ingredients, you must pay Wine Duty rates instead.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief (AIR), which is the repayment of Alcohol Duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
Criteria applied by the VMD for accepting and agreeing the invented name of veterinary medicinal products.
This guide covers alcoholic products definitions and classification including how to calculate the duty. These alcoholic products definitions inform their classification.
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