If you have a food business and want to sell your produce abroad, first you need to register your business with us. You may also be required to have a food export health certificate.
To move goods from your approved production/processing site to a logistics hub for onward travel into Europe you will need a health attestation certificate. The final exporter from the logistics hub will need an EHC on top of the attestation.
New businesses
Contact the embassy or consulate of the country you want to export to, and they'll tell you the information needed for a certificate to be issued.
Email this information to using our food safety advice form.
We'll then inspect your business to verify the food produced complies with UK legislation and we may make additional checks, depending on the wording required on the certificate.
Further information about exporting goods is available at GOV.UK.
Existing business
Request an export certificate >
We will endeavour to process export certificates the same day if request received before 10.30am.
Request a food export site visit >
We will endeavour to carry out the site visit within 5 working days.
Cost
View our food export fees and charges
If we have to re-issue a certificate the original fee will need to be paid again.
Export health certificate online
From 21 August 2020, applications for the 131 most commonly used export health certificates including live crab/lobster exports to China must be submitted and certified online to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) www.gov.uk/export-health-certificates. The EHC online process replaces the current manual application process, allowing certificates to be sent to you automatically.
For help registering for EHC online or to ask operational or technical questions relating to an EHC application, please call APHA on 03000 200 301.