The food and veterinary inspection is handled by local offices.
The local offices carry out the inspection of food companies and livestock production, and serve as animal health units in the event of outbreaks of contagious diseases among livestock.
Food Inspection Units
The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA) has four food inspection units. These units are in charge of food inspections from raw materials to finished products.
Inspections at food establishments include checks of internal control schemes, hygiene and labelling.
The Food Inspection Units are responsible for:
Inspections at restaurants, supermarkets and other food establishments according to the Danish smiley scheme
Registration, approval and licensing of food establishments
Border control of imports and exports of live animals,
foods and non-food products of animal origin
Sampling for laboratory analysis
Follow-up on violations established
Issuance of certificates, e.g. in connection with exports,
and sealing of trucks
Provision of nutritional information by the flying squad
set up under the ‘All About Diet’ project
Veterinary Inspection Units
The DVFA has three veterinary inspection units.
The Veterinary Inspection Units are in charge of inspecting farmed animals, and they develop and maintain emergency measures against infectious livestock diseases and combat such diseases that may break out.
The inspections of farmed animals include:
- Inspection of animal welfare, use of medicinal products and
- Transport conditions
The Veterinary Inspection Units are responsible for:
Registration, approval and licensing of livestock, transporters and enterprises producing non-food products of animal origin
Inspections of livestock, assembly centres and transports of livestock, non-food enterprises and inspections of labelling and traceability of live animals
Sampling for analytical testing
Follow-up on violations established
Casework relating to registration, labelling and traceability of live animals
Issuance of certificates, e.g. in connection with exports and sealing of consignments
Surveillance tasks, contingency plans and exercises
Managing of suspicions and control of livestock diseases
Food Inspection Task Force
This flying squad works together with the Food Inspection Units to check the accounts and documents of enterprises.
It may take action, if illegal enterprises or unlawful slaughter practices have been reported.
The flying squad performs tasks all over Denmark.
Veterinary Inspection Task Force
This task force is to carry out verification inspections, animal welfare inspections of livestock and inspections of assembly centres, transports of livestock and the use of veterinary medicinal products.
The task force performs tasks all over Denmark.
Laboratory
The laboratory performs both microbiological and chemical analyses.
The laboratory is responsible for:
Nationally coordinated monitoring, mapping and control programmes, e.g. relating to salmonella in meat
Regionally managed inspection samples
Market-driven activities: samples and tests requested by private enterprises
Import sampling
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List of approved food establishments
List of approved non-food establishments
List of approved transporters of live animals
