What is self-inspection?

As owner of an enterprise you are responsible for ensuring that people do not get sick from food sold or produced by your enterprise. You must control that your enterprise are in compliance with the food safety regulations, and that your goods are safe; that is “self-inspection”.

Each food enterprise must prepare a self-inspection programme to ensure that food products are handled and stored correctly, from the moment they enter the enterprise, until they leave it again. The food authorities monitor that this self-inspection works as intended.

There are two kinds of self-inspection; verbal and written self-inspection. Self-inspection requirements depend on the risks associated with the enterprise’s production and handling of food products.