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

¹ The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies shall in­form the gen­er­al pub­lic in par­tic­u­lar about:

a.

its in­spec­tion activ­it­ies and their ef­fect­ive­ness;

b.

food­stuffs and util­ity art­icles in re­spect of which there is suf­fi­cient reas­on to sus­pect that they may pose a health risk.

² The com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies may com­mu­nic­ate nu­tri­tion­al know­ledge of gen­er­al in­terest to the gen­er­al pub­lic and to com­puls­ory schools that is in par­tic­u­lar rel­ev­ant to health care, health pro­tec­tion and sus­tain­able nu­tri­tion.

³ They may sup­port the pub­lic in­form­a­tion work of oth­er in­sti­tu­tions.

⁴ The fol­low­ing shall not be made avail­able to the gen­er­al pub­lic:

a.

of­fi­cial in­spec­tion re­ports and doc­u­ments con­tain­ing con­clu­sions drawn from find­ings and in­form­a­tion from in­spec­tions (Art. 32 para. 1);

b.

res­ults of re­search work and sur­veys (Art. 40) if these al­low pro­du­cers, dis­trib­ut­ors or products to be iden­ti­fied;

c.

the risk clas­si­fic­a­tion of busi­nesses by the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies.