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

Util­ity art­icles are art­icles that fall with­in one of the fol­low­ing product cat­egor­ies:

a.

con­sumer art­icles: art­icles and ma­ter­i­als:

1.

that are in­ten­ded to come in con­tact with food­stuffs,

2.

that may be ex­pec­ted to come in con­tact with food­stuffs if used in a nor­mal or reas­on­ably fore­see­able man­ner, or

3.

that are in­ten­ded to trans­fer their con­stitu­ents to food­stuffs;

b.

cos­met­ics and oth­er art­icles, sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions which, when used as nor­mally in­ten­ded, come ex­tern­ally in­to con­tact with the body, teeth or mu­cous mem­branes;

c.

utensils and inks for tat­too­ing and per­man­ent make-up;

d.

art­icles of cloth­ing, tex­tiles and oth­er art­icles which, when used as nor­mally in­ten­ded, come in­to con­tact with the body;

e.

toys and oth­er art­icles in­ten­ded to be used by chil­dren;

f.

candles, matches, light­ers, and joke and nov­elty items;

g.

aer­o­sol dis­pensers that con­tain food­stuffs or oth­er util­ity art­icles;

h.

art­icles and ma­ter­i­als in­ten­ded for the fur­nish­ing and dec­or­a­tion of liv­ing areas, un­less they are sub­ject to oth­er product-spe­cif­ic le­gis­la­tion;

i.

wa­ter that is in­ten­ded to come in con­tact with the hu­man body in fa­cil­it­ies that are ac­cess­ible to the gen­er­al pub­lic or to an au­thor­ised, not ex­clus­ively private group of per­sons, and which is not in­ten­ded for drink­ing, such as shower and bathwa­ter in hos­pit­als, nurs­ing homes or ho­tels.