The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (MZ SR) is responsible for health policy and is the central competent authority for official food controls in the hotel, restaurant and catering sector and for the production and placing of the following products on the market: novel foods, food supplements, foods intended for particular nutritional uses (including foods for infants and young children) as well as natural mineral water, spring water for infants and young children, foodstuffs treated with ionising radiation and food contact materials. The competent authority responsible for coordinating the implementation of official food controls in this sector is the Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic (ÚVZ SR) and its regional authorities.

The MZ SR has authorised several laboratories to conduct laboratory analyses of samples taken in the course of official food controls. All these laboratories are accredited according to EN ISO/IEC 17025 by SNAS (Slovak National Accreditation Service), DAP (Deutsches Akkreditierungssystem Prüfwesen), or the CAI (Czech Accreditation Institute).

National Reference Laboratories are attached to the MZ SR pursuant to Regulation (EU) No. 2017/625.