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How to use VAT margin schemes - records you need to keep, invoicing and VAT return reporting
This toolkit helps both those who buy food and catering services for the public sector and potential suppliers.
Legal requirements for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
This guidance provides an introductory guide to the standards and regulatory requirements that businesses may need to meet, to import and sell goods in the UK.
Find out when and how to take samples for testing, and what happens if one of your flocks tests positive.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports - carry-on luggage, checked-in baggage, restricted items and liquids, electronic devices carried from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Check if you need a certificate to export or move food, drink and agricultural products or export animal feed or pet food.
Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.
How to display the legal name for your food product.
Rules you must follow to use a food or drink name registered and protected by a UK geographical indication (GI) scheme, and penalties if you do not comply.
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
Guidance and forms for applying for a premises licence to sell alcohol, late night hot food and drink or provide public entertainment.
Food for Britain was the Defra sponsored Non-Departmental Public Body promoting UK food exports between 1983 and 2009.
Emails from the Food Standard Agency about problems with food on the market
The rules about product labelling - including special rules for retailers and manufacturers in different business sectors (like food, jewellery and toys)
If you run a food business you must have a hazard analysis plan (HACCP) to meet food safety and hygiene standards
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