Summary and action plan

If you are planning to open a food shop, wholesale food enterprise or restaurant, you must prepare as follows:

You must formulate a self-inspection programme that is suited to the way your enterprise works with food products. Remember that you can get help from your sector association’s sector code or at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration website, which contains guidance and example self-inspection programmes.

You must then apply for your enterprise to be authorised or registered. Submit the form to your regional veterinary and food control authority.Use the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration form, ”Blanket til ansøgning om autorisation eller registrering af fødevarevirksomhed”, available (in Danish) from the Administration website. If your enterprise must be authorised, the food control authority evaluates your self-inspection programme, before they issue an authorisation. If your enterprise only requires registration, your need not submit a self-inspection programme, but your good manufacturing procedure will be evaluated when the food control authority pays an inspection visit to your enterprise.

Remember!
You must obtain a new authorisation after:

• Changing or introducing self-inspection.
• Building modifications.
• Changing production or product range.
• Changing special activities or schemes – e.g. importing/exporting products or using special labelling schemes.

Your self-inspection programme must be reviewed and updated (if necessary) at least once a year – or after the following changes:

• Building modifications.
• Changing production or product range.
• Changing special activities or schemes – e.g. importing/exporting products or using special labelling schemes.

You must also ensure that all staff working with food preparation has adequate training. This also applies to yourself if you participate in food preparation.

Special requirements for restaurants

If you plan to start a restaurant, café or night club serving alcohol, please note that special requirements apply to this kind of enterprise.

For example in the area of:

• Alcohol licence
• Manager
• Door man