GPs do not recommend antibiotics for colds because they will not relieve your symptoms or speed up your recovery.

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However, if you supply zero-rated foodstuffs in containers, which do more than contain, protect and promote their contents, these containers constitute supplies in their own right. Your supplies are then mixed supplies, and you must account for tax on that part of their price as described in paragraph 6.1 of this guidance. Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.

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Most food of a kind used for human consumption (read paragraph 2.3 of this guidance) is zero-rated. There are, however, some exceptions as follows: You must always standard rate As a general principle, you can zero rate a product sold for use as an ingredient in home cooking or baking if it:

A cool mist humidifier. A cool mist humidifier can help decrease nasal congestion. Don’t use a warm mist humidifier, as it can cause swelling in the nasal passages, making it more difficult to breathe. Tea, maté, herbal teas and similar products, and preparations and extracts of these (but this does not include soft drinks containing tea as only one of several ingredients) Many substances used in the preparation of commercially produced foodstuffs would not be used in the domestic kitchen and are not immediately recognisable to the average person as ‘food’. In general products:Other food additives such as baking powder, cream of tartar, rennet, lactase and pectin for culinary use unfermented fruit juice intended specifically for sacramental purposes (read paragraph 4.7 of this guidance) Desserts which are equally suitable for consumption frozen or defrosted (unless primarily designed for eating frozen and made substantially of ice cream or similar products) You must standard rate all your supplies of drinks containing alcohol, whether you sell them for consumption on or off your premises. Examples include: