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Our goal is to ensure that food, cosmetics, consumer goods and toys are safe and that what's inside is what's on the outside of the package.
Our tasks
- Examination and assessment of foodstuffs, commodities, cosmetics and toys
- Management of reference laboratories
- Support of the food authorities
- Handling of priority actions
- Administrative handling of the Europe-wide alert systems RASFF (European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed), RAPEX (European Rapid Alert System for Consumer Protection) and Liaison Office for Food and Feed
- Participation in national and international committees
- Research
- Method development
- Control of internet trade
- Coordination of the topics authenticity and origin, authenticity and protection against deception
- Coordination of the fight against food fraud
Institute for Food Safety Innsbruck
Our focus
- Analysis and assessment of
- Vegetable food in general
- Coffee
- Tea and tea-like products
- spices, fixed products, food mustard
- Bathing water
- Performance of microbiological tests, advice on microbiological and hygiene issues, hygiene controls
- Analysis of pesticide residues, nitrate, illicit dyes (e.g. azo dyes), plant constituents (e.g. caffeine)
National reference laboratories
Opening hours
MO - DO 07:30 - 15:30 h FR 07:30 - 12:00 h
Institute for Food Safety Linz
Our focus
- Analysis and assessment of
- Food for children
- honey, sugar, sugar types, confectionery, cocoa, -products
- fats, oils and their products
- pasta, soups, table salt
- ready meals, delicatessen
- Food additives
- toys and baby products
- Analysis of nutrients, vitamins and other food ingredients, mycotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
- Toy analysis
- Immission measurements with plants (biomonitoring)
National reference laboratory
Institute for Food Safety Vienna
Our focus
- Analysis and assessment of
- Animal food
- Cosmetics
- Consumer goods
- Beverages
- Food supplements
- Novel foods
- Spirits
- Feed (analytics only)
- Analysis of ingredients and additives, veterinary drugs, hormones, contaminants, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), allergens
- Varieties and species identification
- Detection of food irradiation
National Reference Laboratories
Competence Center for the Food Chain
Our focus
- Technical coordination of the topics origin, authenticity and adulteration
- Coordination of the activities of food experts
- Target group specific consulting and coordination center for food law topics and protection against deception
- Internet control: AGES Internet unit for the support of authorities in the field of official Internet surveillance
- Agri-Food Fraud: Central unit for combating fraudulent practices along the food chain
- Monitoring and project-related processing of relevant new risk topics
National Contact Point and National Coordination
Our focus
- National contact point "Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed" (RASFF)
- National support point "Rapid Alert System for Non Food Consumer Products" (RAPEX)
- Administrative processing of "Organic Farming Information System" (OFIS)
- Administrative processing "Trade Control and Expert System" (TRACES)
- National contact point of the "International Food Safety Authorities Network" (INFOSAN) of the WHO (World Health Organization)
- Liaison office according to VO(EU) 882/2004
- National contact point "Better Training for Safer Food" (BTSF)
- Internet monitoring to support the areas of medical market surveillance and food safety (cosmetics, novel foods, food supplements) against prohibited advertising, control of the Internet market
- Bathing water monitoring
Contact
Leitung
Mag. Dr. Friedrich Sövegjarto
- office.lms@ages.at
- +43 50 555-35001
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1220 Wien
Spargelfeldstraße 191
Leitung
Dr. Hermann Unterluggauer
- lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at
- +43 50555 71402
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6020 Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 70
Leitung
Dr. Daniela Schachner
- lebensmittel.linz@ages.at
- +43 50 555-41700
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4020 Linz
Wieningerstraße 8
Leitung
Ing. Andrea Igler
- andrea.igler@ages.at
- +43 50 555-44210
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5020 Salzburg
Innsbrucker Bundesstraße 47
Last updated: 31.05.2023
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