Food and feed control - Reporting self-monitoring results on dioxins and PCBs

Food and feed business operators are obliged to report test results from self-checks on dioxins and PCBs. This is intended to detect possible problems earlier.

Hint: The reporting obligations are regulated in the following laws and ordinances:

• Food, Consumer Goods and Feed Code (LFGB)
• Ordinance on Notification and Transmission Obligations for Substances Not Desirable for Health (MitÜbermitV)

Tip: The European Commission provides you with an overview of the priority obligations of entrepreneurs. In the portal of the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety you can find out more about dioxins and other persistent organic compounds. Based on company reports, it prepares quarterly reports on investigation activities and publishes them on its portal.

Food business operators:

To the competent veterinary and food control authority in the districts and independent cities

Feed business operator:

To the Regional Council of Giessen:

Completed forms; see sample in the portal of the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety

You must transmit the results of the examination available to you electronically to the competent authority. This provides you with uniform electronic templates (digital files) for this purpose.

Written transmission is only permitted if the competent authority has authorised this at your request.

Among other things, you must provide the following data:

• Name of the company
• Sample number
• product examined
• Sampling location
• analysed substance

You can download the sample file together with instructions for completion from the website of the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety BVL.

The competent authority anonymises the data and transmits it to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL). The BVL records these results in a common data pool, evaluates them and publishes them quarterly on its website.

They must be notified within 14 days of the final outcome of the investigation.

Attention: If the maximum level laid down by law for the food or feed concerned has been exceeded, the notification must be made immediately. If you believe that your food or feed is unsafe, you must immediately inform the competent authorities of any measures taken.

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Hint: A violation of the obligation to notify the results of the investigation (non-notification, incorrect, incomplete or late notification) constitutes an administrative offense. The competent authority can impose a fine of up to 20,000.00 euros.

Further information on food safety can be found on the portal of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (HMUKLV) under "Dioxin/PCB reporting obligations"