Veterinary control number
The approval number , in short: Veterinary number is a mandatory declaration of the production facility, the EU is -wide found on all products of animal origin. The veterinary control number is the essential part of the health mark . In Switzerland , the equivalent control number is called the authorization number.
The veterinary control number (also called milk number, meat number or simply company number depending on the food) consists of a combination of numbers and letters assigned to each company that deals with animal foods such as B. milk , meat , fish and eggs or animal products (e.g. animal feed ), they are processed, transported or repackaged (e.g. dairies , slaughterhouses ). This unique number can be found on every milk, meat and fish product and is intended to help consumers and consumer protection authorities determine their origin. The label provides information about the person responsible for hygiene, but not about the origin or origin of the product, as only the location / operation of the (last) processing or packaging step is recorded.
Example (Germany):
Health mark: DE BY 110 EG
veterinary control number: BY 110
The country code is always in front of the veterinary number, e.g. B. DE (formerly: D) for Germany or AT (formerly: A) for Austria. The final characters are always the country-specific abbreviation of the term of the European (economic) community, e.g. B. EG (formerly: EWG, or in other EU languages: CE, EC, EB, EF, EK, EO, ES, EÜ, EY or WE), which is why the veterinary number is also referred to as the EWG number.
For dairy products, the veterinary number itself consists of an abbreviation for the state and a number for the respective company. BY 110 stands for Milchwerke Berchtesgadener Land Chiemgau e. G. in Piding . In Bavaria there is also the special feature that the administrative district can be determined based on the first digit of the establishment number. The system corresponds to that which is also used for the district codes (e.g. 4 = Upper Franconia).
In the case of meat products, an abbreviation for the type of meat processing company is given instead of the state abbreviation, e.g. B. EV stands for processing plant.
On the basis of veterinary numbers, various own brands of discounters can also be assigned to the respective brand manufacturers.
In Germany, the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) can use the number to determine the processing company using an interactive company list database. In Austria, the Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth always publishes current lists of approved establishments as [.pdf] files. In Switzerland, the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) makes it possible to query the license numbers.
Country code
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State code (dairy operations)
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Operating mode abbreviation (meat processing companies)
- EFx fishery products and mussel farms
- EHK minced meat u. Preparation companies
- EK cold stores or freezers
- EMR, EMV fishery products and mussel companies
- EP egg product companies
- ES slaughterhouses
- ESG poultry slaughterhouses
- ESK, EZK domestic rabbit farms
- EUZ repackaging companies
- EV processing plants
- EVG, GV, G, GS gelatine companies
- EW game processing companies
- EZ cutting plants
- EZG poultry meat cutting plants
Austrian identity mark
In Austria, slaughterhouses, butchering, processing plants and other companies that produce and process food of animal origin must apply to the governor for approval . In the course of the EU-wide harmonization through the EEC regulation 853/2004, veterinary control numbers (round health markers) approved before January 1, 2006 were replaced by the new, oval identity mark. Packaging with old numbers could still be used up until December 31, 2012.
Swiss permit number
In Switzerland, companies that produce, process, treat, store or distribute food of animal origin must have a license number (Art. 13 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Commodities). The requirements for this are equivalent to the regulation in the European Union. The authorization number consists only of digits, for dairy products of four digits. The Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office is responsible for the authorization numbers; they are assigned by the cantonal enforcement authorities.
The establishment's identity mark (equivalent to the health mark in the European Union) consists of the letters “CH” and the license number in an ellipse .
See also
Web links
- Hygiene rules for food of animal origin (PDF)(Access to EU law through the Publications Office )
- Lists of establishments with their veterinary control numbers ( Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety )
- Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO): Page no longer available , search in web archives: Lists of approved establishments - food
- Overview page of all country-specific veterinary control numbers
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://apps2.bvl.bund.de/bltu/app/process/bvl-btl_p_veroeffnahmung?execution=e2s1
- ↑ http://www.statistik.at/ovis/pdf/
- ↑ Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO): Page no longer available , search in web archives: Lists of approved establishments - food
- ↑ http://publications.europa.eu/code/de/de-370102.htm