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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
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TAIEX Seminar IV.Session Part 4 Human
Ressources of Market Inspection and Surveillance
Germany especially in Lower Saxony
Astrid Rohrdanz Federal State Office for
Consumer Protection and Food Safety (Lower
Saxony) Institute for Consumption Goods Lüneburg
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Authorities for surveillance of detergents and
washing agents
Ministries
State Laboratories
Environment offices
District and town authorities
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Qualification of employees
state laboratories Chemists, Food Chemists,
Engeneers (University)
district and town authorities
food quality inspectors,
administration employees (Education)
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No harmonized system !
No harmonized qualification!
No harmonized education!
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Lower saxony
The same district authorities are competent for
thesurveillance of Detergents Regulation, Washing
and Cleaning Act and also Food and Feed Law
qualification food quality inspector
State laboratory LAVES, IfB Lüneburg
(investigation and judgement)
qualification food chemist
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Lower saxony
Inspection teams max. 2 persons
in most cases 1 food quality inspector 1
person from state laboratory
Food quality inspector knowledge of
administration , competent to take samples of
products
Person of state laboratory knowledge of
chemical details and judgement
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duration of inspection depends on

• size of the area of the production site,
  how many rooms, size of the warehouse (how
  long you walk in the production site)
• number of products, which are in progress
  (how many products are available)
• number of documents
• products for household use or for I I

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duration of inspection

• products for household check of
  documents and declaration take more time
  than of products for I I use
• most of production sites a
  small warehouse produce only a
  part of their range

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LAVES IfB Lüneburg
SomeEveryone GmbHTulpenthal 16 products
BüschingFesch GmbHCoOldenberg 282 products
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LAVES IfB Lüneburg
about 1 h
SomeEveryone GmbHTulpenthal 16 products
Visitation 1-2 production rooms1 little ware
houseonly a few documents about 2 h
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LAVES IfB Lüneburg
2 h
BüschingFesch GmbHCoOldenberg 282 products
Visitation 2-3 production rooms1 ware house
documents (only I I products,many similiar
products in different concentrations)
about 5 h
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duration of inspection

• Warehouses
• Check the list of products
• Check the documents, in most cases there is no
  knowledge about ingredients
• Check of declaration of products
• ½ day

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duration of inspection

• retailers
• Detergents and cleaning agents are one part of
  the range
• Inspection of the whole supermarket or shop??
  Check of declaration of products
• Taking samples of products
• inspection of retailers only
  food safety inspectors
• 1-2 h

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number of inspections

• 10 production sites /year
• cycle of about 2 -5 years (after first
  visitation !)
• retailers here in most cases only sampling
  of products

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Human ressources for surveillance

• in practise (inspection) 1-2 persons /
  inspection
• 6-10 days/year
• in laboratory 1 chemist/ food
  chemist 1 technical
  assistants for examination of
  about 500 samples/year

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Conclusion

• Human ressources depends on
• number and size of complaints
• kind and number of products (visitation
  production sites and examination
  products)
• regional distribution of complaints