Nds. Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit
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LAVES - More Safety for the Consumer
What can I still eat? Surely everyone has already asked himself this question. News reports about BSE, Avian influenza or Nitrofen have made consumers insecure. That is why Lower Saxony has taken action.
In the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety - LAVES -, all tasks of the consumers health protection are focused on minimizing risks and to continually encourage consumer confidence.
Eight official Institutes belong to the LAVES organization throughout Lower Saxony. The head office is located in Oldenburg.
Topics
Food
Food is defined as all material and substances, whether in processed, semi-processed or raw condition, meant for human consumption, or which can be rationally expected to be consumed by humans. more...
Consumer Products
Consumer products use are the items that come into direct skin contact with humans, or indirectly via foodstuff. Consumer products use consist of various materials such as wood, ceramic, glass, textiles, leather, plant fibres, metal, rubber or synthetics. more...
Animals
Animals count as the basic nutrition suppliers for humans. The most intensive surveillance possible, from birth up to meat as nutrition means, constitutes a significant task of the Consumer Protection Services while taking into consideration the dignity of animals as living creatures. more...
Feed
The declared objective is the assurance of qualitative high-value and healthy, harmless feed stuff, from which the manufacturing of flawless produce containing animal extracts can be won, as well as to protect animals and environment from avoidable encumbrances. more...