useful food and drinks related websites and documents

Useful Links

This page contains links to useful food and primary production related websites, clubs, suppliers and official sites.

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Clubs and Trade Associations
EC Food Regulations
FSA and Business Link sites
Links to Regional Food Groups
Products to aid Food Regulation Compliance - HACCP
Products to aid Food Regulation Compliance - temperature control
Products to aid Food Regulation Compliance - Traceability
Training Providers - Nationwide
Training Providers - South West
Useful links
Animal Imports
Information and advice on import legislation for EU importers of live animals and products from third countries.
http://www.vetimpleg.eu

Environmental regulations
Website that covers Environmental Issues, designed for small food and drink businesses
http://www.netregs.gov.uk

Food Industry Recruitment
Yourfoodjob.com has become one of the top recruitment websites for the food industry. We work directly with some of the major UK food manufacturers including Bakkavor, Greencore, Northern Foods and Kerry Foods, providing them with solutions for their recruitment needs. We also work with many of the food industry's leading recruitment consultancies.
http://www.yourfoodjob.com

Genon Labs
UKAS accredited food and feed testing laboratory with low cost, high quality and rapid analytical services - 2 day turnaround as standard. Bespoke projects a speciality.
http://www.genonlabs.co.uk

Information on barcodes and RFID
Centre of Excellence for automatic identification and data capture. Run courses and demonstrations on elecronic marking and tracking systems.
http://www.aidc.org

ISO Standards
This Canadian site has rewritten the ISO standards (9000 and 22000) in Plain English to make them easier to understand. Current prices of the standards are on the website.
http://www.praxiom.com/22000.htm

Local Authorities Coordinating Office on Regulatory Affairs (LACORS)
LACORS assists the 467 local authorities in the UK to improve the quality of Trading Standards and food enforcement.
They have a useful business section, which covers things like licensing laws.
http://www.lacors.gov.uk

News about primary production
Mary Critchley has maintained this website since the 2001 Foot and Mouth fiasco. She highlights shortcomings in Government disease control policies and brings issues to light that might otherwise be ignored.
http://www.warmwell.com

NORMAPME
NORMAPME represents the interests of European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the development of European and Global standards.
http://www.normapme.com

Our Source
The only total resource for anyone interested in successfully running a hospitality, leisure and tourism business within England, combining the web based information support with high level personal approach and in-depth knowledge of tourism professionals. Including buying and selling property, finding staff or jobs, locating suppliers, accessing the only national database of tourism marketing opportunities, accessing comprehensive information and benefiting from the only sector-specific recycling facility.
http://www.oursource.co.uk/index

Promis
PROMIS ®The organization which seeks to provide a single point for compliance and performance improvement for European SMEs and their consultants.
http://www.promis.eu

Quick Hotels -discount hotels in Europe
QuickHotels is a Europe-wide discount hotel reservation website offering more than 30,000 hotels with discount room rates.
http://www.QuickHotels.com

UEAPME
The organisation that represents small business across Europe. See especially the food section under sectorial policies for position papers and potential legislation that could affect SMEs.
http://www.ueapme.com