Inspection by the food authorities

The regional veterinary and food control authorities perform inspections to monitor whether food shops, wholesale food enterprises and restaurants are complying with all the regulations in the food legislation. The aim is to protect consumers from health risks and deception, and ensure uniform conditions for producers and traders. Inspections are carried out in Denmark by 10 regional veterinary and food control authorities, which regularly visit all food shops, wholesale food enterprises and restaurants.

Inspectors are entitled to enter

Your enterprise must grant entry to inspectors, no matter how inconvenient it might be. The inspector must show identification and is entitled to enter your premises without a court order. Inspectors are food technologists, veterinarians, food scientists, engineers, nutritionists, professionals within the food sector, and laboratory technicians.

The entire production facilities or enterprise can be inspected. The owner or another responsible for the company is obliged to hand over information, such as financial information, that might be significant to the inspection - on behaves of the inspectors requires. If the information must be copied or printed from electronic data, the manager has a duty to assist. The inspector is entitled to take samples from the enterprise for analysis, and take photographs at the premises. The inspector is also entitled to obtain information about the company from other public authorities.