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

¹ The com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity may con­duct or or­der test pur­chases in or­der to veri­fy com­pli­ance with the age re­stric­tion for the sup­ply of al­co­hol­ic bever­ages.

² A test pur­chase is the pur­chase or at­temp­ted pur­chase of an al­co­hol­ic bever­age by an un­der­age per­son who has been au­thor­ised to par­ti­cip­ate in the test.

³ The find­ings ob­tained from the test pur­chases may only be used in crim­in­al or ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­ceed­ings if the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are met:

a.

The test pur­chases are con­duc­ted by the can­ton­al au­thor­ity or by a re­cog­nised spe­cial­ist or­gan­isa­tion.

b.

The un­der­age per­son and a per­son with par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity for the un­der­age per­son have giv­en writ­ten con­sent to par­ti­cip­at­ing in the test pur­chases.

c.

The can­ton­al au­thor­ity or a re­cog­nised spe­cial­ist or­gan­isa­tion es­tab­lishes that:

1.

the un­der­age per­son is suit­able for the in­ten­ded activ­ity; and

2.

he or she is ad­equately pre­pared for the activ­ity.

d.

The un­der­age per­son shall act an­onym­ously and shall be ac­com­pan­ied by an adult.

e.

No meas­ures shall be taken to con­ceal the true age of the un­der­age per­son.

f.

The test pur­chase shall be re­cor­ded and doc­u­mented im­me­di­ately.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the re­cog­ni­tion and su­per­vi­sion of the spe­cial­ist or­gan­isa­tions in­volved;

b.

the de­tails in re­la­tion to re­cruit­ing, in­struct­ing, ac­com­pa­ny­ing and pro­tect­ing the pri­vacy of the un­der­age per­son;

c.

the re­quire­ments for re­cord­ing and doc­u­ment­ing the test pur­chases con­duc­ted;

d.

the in­form­a­tion giv­en to the sales out­lets con­cerned.