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Introduction

Food safety has become a central concern within the European Union as it is all over the world. Consumers do not only have a right to safe food, but must also have confidence in the safety of their food supply.

Most people worry about food borne pathogens, chemicals, including pesticides and veterinary residues, additives and other environmental contaminants; others are apprehensive about the use of new technologies and the potential impact of genetically modified foods, and follow the market introduction of these foods. The fact that you are searching our website shows that food safety and nutrition are issues of importance to you.

Health protection is the central tenet of the food safety policies of the European Union and Hungary, and this must not be compromised by economic or political interests.

Safe food is a result of continuous and thorough production control processes. The final product should not damage health if stringent quality control is maintained throughout the food chain, and this requires an efficient official control and inspection strategy.

One of this office's duties is to ensure the confidence in food safety by the cooperation and coordination among supervising authorities involved in food production and maintaining the necessary contacts among international food safety authorities. This office provides risk assessment on all food related matters. The reason for this is that people come into contact with food not only as consumers.

Our mission is to raise consumers' knowledge of high quality foods, to know and follow basic food hygiene rules and to reject products of uncertain quality. To achieve this goal we provide up-to-date, clear, current, and authoritative information of the highest standards.

The office provides the latest up-to-date, and trustworthy scientific achievements in the area of food safety and healthy nutrition for both the experts and for the general public.

 

Attached document(s)

• HFSO structure [23.6 KB]
• HFSO leaflet [1556.73 KB]
• HFSO executive summary [107.46 KB]