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

¹ If the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies have filed a com­plaint about a product, they shall or­der the meas­ures re­quired to re­store it to its law­ful state.

² They may or­der that the product com­plained of:

a.

may be used and wheth­er such use is sub­ject to con­di­tions;

b.

must be dis­posed of by the com­pany at its ex­pense;

c.

must be con­fis­cated, rendered harm­less, re­cycled in a harm­less man­ner or dis­posed of at the ex­pense of the com­pany.

³ They may re­quire the re­spons­ible per­son at the busi­ness:

a.

to in­vest­ig­ate the de­fi­cien­cies;

b.

to take suit­able meas­ures;

c.

to in­form the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies of the meas­ures taken.

⁴ If re­quire­ments are re­peatedly dis­reg­arded, the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies may or­der the dis­pos­al or the for­feit­ure of the product.

⁵ In re­la­tion to im­ports, the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies may also or­der that a product com­plained of:

a.

be re­fused entry;

b.

be giv­en to the com­pet­ent can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­ity for fur­ther test­ing;

c.

be sent back, provided the per­son re­spons­ible for ship­ping and the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the coun­try of ori­gin agree;

d.

be sent to a new coun­try of des­tin­a­tion at the re­quest of the per­son re­spons­ible for ship­ping provided the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the coun­try of des­tin­a­tion agrees.