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The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
How to apply to protect a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI schemes.
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
A guide to organising a street party - telling your council, closing roads, getting insurance and licences
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
When charities can trade, tax rules and when to trade through a separate company.
What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
Retailers can calculate the VAT they have to record in their account per day or week instead of for each sale
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
Guidance on tests and inspections for producers, processors, importers and sellers of organic food, feed and seed.
Check if you'll need an import licence and what import duty you'll need to pay when importing certain agricultural goods and food from outside the UK.
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