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The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) is responsible for a range of government policies that are reflected in the name of the ministry itself. The ministry has been working for over 30 years to protect the public from environmental toxins and radiation, to promote the wise and efficient use of raw materials, to advance climate action and to ensure that natural resources are used in a way that protects the diversity of animal and plant species and preserves their habitats.

In Germany, the federal states are responsible for food control. To ensure comparable procedures in all 16 federal states, the federal states coordinate their activities mainly in working groups in which the federal level is also involved. In most federal states, food control is divided into three levels: At the uppermost level, the responsible ministry coordinates the food control. Below this, the provincial authorities or the regional government offices are responsible for the supervisory control of the food control authorities in the district or municipal authorities (“Kreise und Kreisfreie Städte”). These local offices for food and veterinary control carry out the investigation locally.