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

¹ Any per­son who man­u­fac­tures, handles, stores, trans­ports, places on the mar­ket, im­ports, ex­ports or car­ries in trans­it food­stuffs or util­ity art­icles must en­sure that the stat­utory re­quire­ments are com­plied with. He or she is ob­liged to en­sure self-su­per­vi­sion.

² Of­fi­cial in­spec­tion does not im­ply an ex­emp­tion from the ob­lig­a­tion to carry out self-su­per­vi­sion.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails of self-su­per­vi­sion and its doc­u­ment­a­tion. It shall provide for sim­pli­fied self-su­per­vi­sion and sim­pli­fied writ­ten doc­u­ment­a­tion for small busi­nesses.

⁴ It may stip­u­late re­quire­ments for the spe­cial­ist know­ledge of per­sons re­spons­ible for self-su­per­vi­sion.