This eight-volume, fully comprehensive encyclopaedia, gives an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of the law of food and drugs, providing the full text of all the relevant legislation in a convenient looseleaf format. It covers the law relating to food, fertilisers, slaughterhouses, the grading and marking of produce and the law on medicines and poisons. It also includes domestic Acts and statutory instruments, EC legislation, leading cases, reports of public authorities, recommendations of advisory committees and codes of practice. All statutes and statutory instruments are provided with detailed annotations not available in any other publication. The service is also available on CD-ROM. Eight looseleaf volumes, subscribers receive their first year's updating issues as part of the purchase price (three service issues per year). Subscribers are then charged annually for subsequent updating.

General editor: Claire Andrews
Contributions by: Katherine Thompson, Mike Burgess, Peter Feldschreiber
Foreword by: Sir Gordon Borrie
Original author: Anthony Painter