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

¹ It must be pos­sible to trace the fol­low­ing at all levels of pro­duc­tion, pro­cessing and dis­tri­bu­tion:

a.

food­stuffs, an­im­als in­ten­ded for food pro­duc­tion and all sub­stances per­tain­ing thereto or which may be ex­pec­ted to be pro­cessed in­to a food­stuff;

b.

con­sumer art­icles;

c.

cos­met­ics;

d.

toys.

² Com­pan­ies must set up sys­tems and pro­ced­ures for this pur­pose so that at the au­thor­it­ies’ re­quest, they can provide the in­form­a­tion on sup­pli­ers and com­pan­ies to whom they sup­plied their products.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend the trace­ab­il­ity ob­lig­a­tion to cov­er fur­ther util­ity art­icles if Switzer­land is re­quired to do so un­der an in­ter­na­tion­al treaty.