Food safety

Food Safety ( also: food hygiene ) is a generic term for all measures and concepts that are intended to ensure that food is suitable for the end user for consumption can come from them no health or injury.

In addition to inspections and preventive measures to maintain hygiene in the production and handling of food includes the traceability of food, which is to ensure that the consumer is the fullest possible protection eg recall actions when it detects a hazard, the preamble of the food safety.

In Germany calls belonging to the Food, Commodities and Feed Code Food Hygiene Regulations Regulation (EC) 852/2004, the application of a HACCP system. The Association of German Retailers ( HDE) has - established the International Food Standard ( IFS), are subject to the own brand food manufacturers in fact - together with foreign sister organizations. Check certification companies such as DQS and TÜV whether these food producers meet the requirements of the IFS extensive questionnaire, so are able to safe, quality and legal food produce. Almost all private label food manufacturers have such certification.

The health center, based in Münster is the first nationwide health center for the food industry.

The official food inspection controls the observance of the regulations on food safety by random sampling checks. Parent bodies are the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture or the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.