The food right is cross section subject between consumer protection, danger warning and industrial law in the broader sense. It regulates the treatment and production of food.

Protection property

The food right is to protect not only the health of the population, but also to regulate at the same time the competition on the food markets by the quality requirements. The obligation of the national force results in Germany from kind 2 exp. 2 GG in connection with the welfare state principle according to kind 20 exp. 1 GG.

Legislative competence

The German Federal law giver has the competitive legislative competence for the food right out. It made use with numerous laws and regulations within the range of the Federal Ministry for consumer protection and the Federal Ministry for health and social order of this authority. In the meantime also regulations were issued within the area of the European community (see below).

Legal regulations

The food right is scattered over numerous laws. The most important laws and regulations are:

• the food and feed law book (LFGB)
• the meat hygiene law (FlHG)
• the food hygiene regulation (LMHV)
• the food marking regulation (LMKV)
• the food tester regulation (LKonV)

as well as numerous regulations to certain food like the chopping meat regulation, wine regulation, cocoa regulation among other things

European right

In the course of the standardization of the European domestic market and the European consumer protection the Federal Republic of Germany retired numerous sovereign powers on the European community. This reacted with the EEC regulation 178/2002 an important regulation in the area of the food right with the mechanism of a European authority for food security and with decree of general principles on the area of the food right (so-called food basic regulation).

See also: Milk law

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