Guides
What you should know before you sell surplus
Law, classification, documents, process: here we answer the questions that come up in production, quality assurance, purchasing and insolvency administration before a batch is sold — factually, from trading practice and without legal advice.
For suppliers
Best-before date passed: can the goods still be sold?
Best-before date versus use-by date, who carries responsibility, and how a resale between businesses is labelled.
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By-product or waste: how classification decides the revenue
The four criteria of the Waste Framework Directive, what follows from the classification and why it must happen early and in writing.
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Former foodstuffs as animal feed: rules, limits, documents
Definition in the Catalogue of feed materials, excluded materials, registration, traceability and what a feed mill wants to see.
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Selling stock from an insolvency or plant closure
Time pressure from best-before dates and storage costs, retention of title and release, valuation and the process step by step — for insolvency administrators and management.
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Which documents a buyer needs for surplus raw materials
Specification, certificate of analysis, allergens, origin, batches, photos and samples — what may be missing and what may not, with a checklist.
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