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

¹ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may del­eg­ate tasks re­lated to of­fi­cial in­spec­tions to third parties, in par­tic­u­lar com­pan­ies and or­gan­isa­tions. They may cre­ate suit­able or­gan­isa­tions for this pur­pose.

² In or­der to carry out their activ­it­ies, third parties must be:

a.

ac­cred­ited;

b.

re­cog­nised by Switzer­land un­der an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment; or

c.

in some oth­er way au­thor­ised or re­cog­nised un­der fed­er­al law.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the stand­ards for ac­cred­it­a­tion.

⁴ The au­thor­it­ies con­cerned shall define the tasks and powers that they as­sign to third parties. The third parties may not or­der any meas­ures.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the can­tons may au­thor­ise third party con­tract­ors to charge fees for their activ­it­ies un­der this Act. Their tar­iffs shall re­quire the ap­prov­al of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs.

⁶ Co­oper­a­tion by third parties shall be sub­ject to state su­per­vi­sion. Third parties must re­port to the au­thor­it­ies that have del­eg­ated them du­ties or powers on the man­age­ment and ac­count­ing tasks as­signed to them.