Federal Act
on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles
(Foodstuffs Act, FSA)

¹ All in­form­a­tion re­lat­ing to food­stuffs, con­sumer art­icles and cos­met­ics must cor­res­pond to the facts.

² The present­a­tion, la­belling and pack­aging of products un­der para­graph 1 and their ad­vert­ising must not mis­lead con­sumers. The pro­vi­sions of the Trade­mark Pro­tec­tion Act of 28 Au­gust 1992⁵ on in­dic­a­tions of Swiss ori­gin are re­served.

³ In par­tic­u­lar any present­a­tion, la­belling, pack­aging and ad­vert­ising that is li­able to de­ceive con­sumers as to the man­u­fac­ture, com­pos­i­tion, con­di­tion, meth­od of pro­duc­tion, stor­age life, coun­try of pro­duc­tion, ori­gin of the raw ma­ter­i­als or com­pon­ents, par­tic­u­lar ef­fects or spe­cial value of the product is re­garded as mis­lead­ing.

⁴ In or­der to guar­an­tee pro­tec­tion against de­cep­tion, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may:

a.

provide a de­scrip­tion of food­stuffs and stip­u­late their des­ig­na­tion;

b.

stip­u­late re­quire­ments for food­stuffs, con­sumer art­icles and cos­met­ics;

c.

is­sue la­belling reg­u­la­tions for areas in which con­sumers as a res­ult of the product or the form of trad­ing may be es­pe­cially li­able to de­cep­tion;

d.

re­com­mend good man­u­fac­tur­ing prac­tices (GMP) for food­stuffs, con­sumer art­icles and cos­met­ics.

⁵ In or­der to im­ple­ment in­ter­na­tion­al ob­lig­a­tions, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may make ad­di­tion­al util­ity art­icles sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions of this Art­icle.