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The Food Standard Agency has published a new guide aimed at businesses involved in food packaging and at those bodies that enforce the rules governing such businesses.

The guide will help companies that, in the course of their business, manufacture or use materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. It also applies to those that [...]

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