Food businesses are obliged to register and report any significant changes to their work processes or conversions. This applies to every facility you manage or operate. It does not matter whether it is the processing, production or distribution of food. Food businesses are all businesses that produce, process, market directly or via the internet, transport, etc. food, regardless of whether they are profit-oriented or not.

Food businesses are, for example

• Businesses that only marginally stock food or food supplements, such as petrol stations, pharmacies, drugstores and fitness studios
• Schools, kindergartens, retirement homes, clubhouses that regularly serve food (canteens, kitchens, canteens)
• Operators of food vending machines
• Bakeries, cafés, ice cream parlors, pastry shops, kiosks, snack bars, mini-markets
• Producers of food of animal origin
• Fishing, crustacean, shellfish and mollusc businesses
• Restaurants
• Wholesalers, transporters, importers and exporters of foodstuffs
• Agricultural businesses and winegrowers
• farms for the rearing or keeping of food-producing animals
• Food brokers (e.g. via the Internet)
• Milk processing and milk processing companies
• Mobile food trade including sales vehicles
• Primary producers of plant-based foods, such as fruit, vegetables, cereals, herbs
• Companies that distribute food free of charge, such as food banks
• Events with catering, party service and catering
• Entrepreneurs who offer food on the Internet. It does not matter whether they sell the food
  • on their own homepage,
  • via other providers or
  • on marketplaces such as eBay or Amazon.