Guidance notes
The FSA regularly issues guidance to food businesses, food industry representatives and others on a range of topics, often as a result of new regulations coming into force.
A list of all our current guidance can be found at the link towards the end of this page.
- Additives and supplements: Guidance for businesses
- Agriculture: Guidance for businesses
- Allergy and intolerance: Guidance for businesses
- Contaminants and food contact materials: Guidance for businesses
- Dairy products: Guidance for businesses
- Food guidance
- Hygiene and food safety guidance
- Labelling guidance
- Meat and livestock guidance
- Wine standards guidance
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Contaminants and food contact materials: Guidance for businesses
- Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations 2009: Guidance
- Contaminants in food and food irradiation legislation: Explanatory note
- Materials and articles in contact with food (England) regulations 2010: Guidance
- Materials and articles in contact with food: Guidance for businesses
- Mycotoxins guidance and advice for industry and enforcement bodies
- National legislation on food contact materials: The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 2012
Food guidance
- Animal feed legislation and guidance
- Distance selling guidance for food businesses
- Expenses arising from 'additional official controls': Guidance notes
- GM food and feed, and traceability and labelling of GMOs: Guidance notes on the regulations
- Import of food from third countries: guidance for food authorities
- Official Feed and Food Controls regulation: Guidance for enforcement authorities
- Waste cooking oil from catering premises
Hygiene and food safety guidance
- E.coli O157: control of cross-contamination
- Enforcement of hygiene regulations on egg production sites in the UK: Guidance for enforcement bodies
- Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005): how to apply for approval or registration, and related information
- Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005): information for farmers
- Fishery Products Charges Regulations 2007: Guidance for enforcement authorities
- Food Safety Act 1990: a Guide for food businesses
- Food handlers: Fitness to work - A practical guide for food businesses
- Food safety, traceability, product withdraw and recall: General Food Law Regulation Guidance for food businesses
- Guidelines for the development of national voluntary guides
- Management of outbreaks of foodborne illness in England and Wales
- Quick Frozen Foodstuffs Regulations 2007
- Shelf life of ready-to-eat food in relation to Listeria monocytogenes: Guidance for food businesses
- Small and low throughput establishments: examples of EU hygiene regulations flexibilities
- Temperature control legislation in the UK: Guidance notes
- Vacuum packed chilled foods guidance
Labelling guidance
- Food allergen labelling legislation: Guidance
- Allergen management and labelling for pre-packed foods
- Providing allergen information for non pre-packed foods
- Composition and labelling of foodstuffs suitable for people intolerant to gluten: Guidance
- Labelling of certain food colours as set out in Regulation 1333/2008: Guidance
Meat and livestock guidance
- Animal by-products and edible co-products guidance
- Charges for official controls in meat premises (The Charges Guide)
- Cleaner animals
- Desinewed meat: Guidance on the moratorium
- Emergency slaughter of cattle: Guidance for veterinary surgeons
- Enforcement of the legislative requirements regarding the number of days between the slaughter and mincing of chilled meat
- Food chain information for cattle/calves, sheep and goats in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Food chain information for pig slaughterhouses: Guidance
- Food chain information for poultry
- Food chain information for animals susceptible to Bovine Tuberculosis
- Health certificate for farmed game
- Home slaughter of livestock: A guide to the law
- Producing, harvesting and importing terrestrial edible snails for human consumption: Guidance
- Revised provisions on nitrites/nitrates in meat products: Guidance notes
- Supply of on-farm slaughtered and delayed eviscerated poultry: guidance for authorisation
- Trichinella testing in feral wild boar: Guidance
- Wild game guide: a guide to food hygiene legislation
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