Food monitoring - reporting unsafe food

Laboratories that carry out food analyses on behalf of food companies are obliged to report unsafe food.

As the responsible person or person in charge of a laboratory, you must check the following questions in connection with the new reporting obligation:

• Is it a food sample taken in Germany?
• Based on the analysis results, do you assume that the food safety requirements are not being met? Is there therefore a marketing ban?

Note: The reporting obligation supplements the obligations of food business operators. They must immediately inform the authorities responsible for them of the measures taken if they assume that the food they have placed on the market is not safe.

Note: A breach of the obligation to notify (failure to notify, incorrect, incomplete or untimely notification) of unsafe food constitutes an administrative offense.