Lebensmittelüberwachung

Food monitoring serves to protect consumers.

Official food monitoring has the task of ensuring the protection of consumers from health hazards, misleading and deceptive marketing of food, consumer goods, cosmetics and tobacco products. In Thuringia, this is the responsibility of the veterinary and food monitoring offices of the districts and independent cities as well as the State Office for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

In food law, the principle applies that companies and facilities that manufacture, import, process or treat food, cosmetics, tobacco products and consumer goods and place them on the market must ensure the safety of their products as part of their duty of care.

The employees of the veterinary and food inspection offices in the districts and independent cities randomly check compliance with food law requirements at all trade levels from the manufacturer or importer to the retail trade as well as in catering establishments and communal catering facilities. They are the point of contact for citizens' concerns in connection with food law issues.

The sensory, chemical-analytical and microbiological testing and assessment of samples taken by the veterinary and food inspection offices is carried out at the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection.

Official food monitoring has the task of ensuring the protection of consumers from health hazards, misleading and deceptive marketing of food, consumer goods, cosmetics and tobacco products.

In Thuringia, responsibility lies with the veterinary and food monitoring offices of the districts and independent cities as well as the State Office for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

To the veterinary and food monitoring office of your district or city.