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Handling and storing food products
Transportation and received goods
| The Danish food legislation also applies to the transport of food products. This means that wholesale food enterprises, food shops and restaurants that provide, deliver or collect goods have the responsibility for ensuring compliance with temperature requirements, ect. during transport. |
- If you provide, deliver or collect goods - you have also the responsibility for ensuring compliance
- If you get food delivered, it is the supplier's responsibility
However - from the moment you take delivery of food to be used in your business, you are responsible for ensuring the temperature requirements.
Therefore it is important that the food temperature is examined, so that you can reject the products if the temperature requirements have not been met. You must also ensure that packaging is intact and that expiry dates have not been exceeded. Naturally you must also reject goods if you can smell or see that they are not satisfactory.
When goods are checked and found OK, they must quickly be moved to storage so that they become stored in accordance with the applicable requirements for temperature.
 You can read more about transporting wholesale food products in this Danish Veterinary and Food Administration booklet: ”Om transport af fødevarer en gros”, available (in Danish) here: |