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Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety

Name Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
Acronym BVL
Activities
  • Risk management
  • Risk assessment and communication (veterinary medicines)
  • Coordination of food control and monitoring, including zoonoses
  • Coordination of feed control
  • Crisis management, warning systems
  • SANTE/F, RASFF, INFOSAN and national AAC single contact point
  • Regulatory science
  • Food supplements, novel food and food for special groups
  • Risk assessment of genetically modified food and feed
  • Food additives, flavourings and enzymes
  • Food contact materials
  • Cosmetics, tobacco, consumer products
  • Food and feed fraud
  • Food borne disease outbreaks
  • Crisis prevention
  • Data management
  • Authorisation of plant protection products and veterinary medicinal products
Responsibilities Animal feed Animal health and welfare Biological hazards and zoonoses Biotechnology and genetic engineering Contaminants Emerging risks Environmental risk assessment Food contact materials and packaging Food ingredients Food supplements Mineral water Nanotechnology Novel foods Plant protection products or pesticides Residues of veterinary medicinal products
Locations Brunswick and Berlin
URL https://www.bvl.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html