The task of official food monitoring is to protect consumers from health hazards, misleading information and deception, thereby ensuring a high level of consumer health protection. The Veterinary and Food Surveillance Office regularly carries out random checks to ensure that food business operators are complying with the applicable legal regulations when dealing with food, cosmetic products, tobacco products and consumer goods.
Further tasks of the Veterinary and Food Inspection Office:
Monitoring of primary agricultural production businesses
Approval of businesses
Inspection of food transports
Determining the causes of illnesses following food consumption
Advice on construction measures and the proper handling of foodstuffs
Processing EU warnings and consumer complaints
Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections of livestock and game
