Federal Institute for Consumer Health Protection and Veterinary Medicine

The Federal Institute for Consumer Health Protection and Veterinary Medicine ( BgVV ), based in Berlin, was a higher federal authority that was founded on July 1, 1994 as part of the dissolution of the Federal Health Office (BGA). It essentially consisted of two institutes formerly assigned to the BGA: the Max von Pettenkofer Institute and the Robert von Ostertag Institute .

The institute's areas of responsibility were chemical assessment and veterinary drug approval.

In November 2002 the institute was dissolved and a large part was incorporated into the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and a smaller part into the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL). The Jena branch was transferred to the Friedrich Loeffler Institute , Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI). All facilities belong to the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Web links

• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
• Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
• Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI)
• Statement by the Science Council on the 1999 BgVV (evaluation of departmental research) (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ § 3 BGA successor law of June 24, 1994; proclaimed in the Federal Law Gazette on June 30, 1994, coming into force the day after the proclamation.