Foodstuffs codelist country codes

Description

The cantonal food enforcement authorities and the Principality of Liechtenstein inspect establishments and foodstuffs and report the results to the FSVO. Most of these official inspections are risk-based, i.e. targeted where there is suspected to be the highest risk of deviations from legal requirements, thus ensuring the safety and quality of foodstuffs.

As the data transmission is still in development, the results available are limited to certain areas of investigation.

A food sample is deemed compliant if it meets the statutory requirements. If it fails, it is considered non-compliant and is rejected. In some cases, compliance cannot be assessed because there are no regulations governing a particular set of circumstances. The result is then reported as “not evaluated”. These values do not appear in the visualisations.

Not all tests appear in the data: for example, certain results are not transmitted to the FSVO due to pending interface optimisations or inconsistent recording of values below the detection limit in the cantonal laboratory information systems.

A sample may undergo multiple tests (analyses for different substances or properties). This means that each sample may yield both compliant and non-compliant test results, which then appear as such in the evaluations. However, the data reported by the cantons and the Principality of Liechtenstein do not provide information as to the percentage of non-compliant samples.