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Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing meals for employees and directors
Protected food name with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Resources to help schools plan and provide healthy food in schools.
The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Annual statistics about food and drink purchases in the UK.
The Trust was the advisor to government on school meals and children’s food. It became an independent body in 2011 and was renamed the Children’s Food Trust.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
News, economics and statistics relating to the UK’s farming and food industries.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
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