Raw drinking milk guidance
Guidance for food businesses on selling, sampling and testing raw drinking milk, including information on tuberculosis and raw cows' drinking milk.
Business guidance
Wild game guidance
Hygiene regulations for supplying game for human consumption.
Charges for controls in meat premises
How we charge for activities carried out by us in meat premises.
Third country representation for animal feed businesses
The measures that must be taken by animal feed businesses to legally trade feed between GB, NI, the EU, and non-EU countries from 1 January 2021.
Slaughter licensing
How to get the required licensing to slaughter animals in a meat establishment.
Manual for official controls
Legal requirements and standards for approved meat establishments.
Farmers producing animal feed
Farmers producing animal feed or those involved in mixing with additives and pre-mixtures must be aware of the requirements for registration, record-keeping, animal feed hygiene and mixing of animal feed.
Animal welfare
We maintain regular checks on slaughterhouses in the UK, to ensure that they comply with animal welfare regulations.
Animal feed legislation
Legislation on animal feed applies to a wide range of animal feed businesses and activities. This page contains further guidance on key legislation affecting businesses involved with animal feed.
Food chain information
Guidance if you are intending to slaughter animals for human consumption or as food for other animals.
Food and drink businesses – supplying into the animal feed chain
Requirements food and drink businesses that supply food products for use as animal feed must comply with.
Managing farm manures for food safety
Guidance for growers of ready-to-eat crops. The guidance explains how to manage farm manures by developing safety plans that will reduce the risks of microbiological contamination of ready-to-eat crops.
Approved food establishments
Lists of approved food premises and types of establishments approved by us and local authorities.
Starting an animal feed business
How to register and apply for approval as an animal feed business that makes, markets or uses animal feed.
GM in animal feed
Legal criteria that genetically modified (GM) feed products must meet to be marketed in the UK.
Auditing meat establishments
How we audit your meat premises and what you need to know as a food business owner.
Specified risk material removal and cutting plant authorisation
What specified risk material is, how to remove it from your livestock and the authorisation required for cutting plants to carry it out
Cleaner cattle and sheep
Standards for acceptable and unacceptable levels of cleanliness for cattle and sheep that are slaughtered.
National Enforcement Priorities for animal feed and food hygiene
We produce the National Enforcement Priorities (NEPs) for food and animal feed hygiene. These assist Local Authorities and businesses in maintaining standards and safeguarding public health.
Other
Supply of Qurbani Meat and Offal during Eid al-Adha in England and Wales full consultation
Full consultation on the chilling requirements changes of Qurbani meat and offal supplied from slaughterhouses in England and Wales during the period of Eid al-Adha.
Consumer guidance
Raw drinking milk
Information for anyone who is already consuming or is considering consuming raw drinking milk or products made from raw milk.
Campylobacter
How campylobacter is spread and how to minimise your chances of eating food contaminated with campylobacter.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
What Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is and the controls we implement to prevent food from being contaminated by it.
Home slaughter of livestock
Legal requirements and guidance for home slaughter.