Article 10

Tasks related to official controls shall, in general, be carried out using appropriate control methods and techniques such as monitoring, surveillance, verification, audit, inspection, sampling and analysis. Official controls on feed and food shall include, inter alia, the following activities: examination of any control systems that feed and food business operators have put in place and the results obtained; inspection of: primary producers' installations, feed and food businesses, including their surroundings, premises, offices, equipment, installations and machinery, transport, as well as of feed and food; raw materials, ingredients, processing aids and other products used for the preparation and production of feed and food; semi-finished products; materials and articles intended to come into contact with food; cleaning and maintenance products and processes, and pesticides; labelling, presentation and advertising; checks on the hygiene conditions in feed and food businesses; assessment of procedures on good manufacturing practices (GMP), good hygiene practices (GHP), good farming practices and HACCP, taking into account the use of guides established in accordance with Community legislation; examination of written material and other records which may be relevant to the assessment of compliance with feed or food law; interviews with feed and food business operators and with their staff; the reading of values recorded by feed or food business measuring instruments; controls carried out with the competent authority's own instruments to verify measurements taken by feed and food business operators; any other activity required to ensure that the objectives of this Regulation are met.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.