The Regulation adopts the Programme for determining the manner of conducting veterinary and health examinations in approved facilities for internal trade in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is attached to this publication. This Programme is in accordance with several Federal and national legislative acts as listed on page 2. Production, marketing and trade in products, raw materials, food products of animal origin, fodder and waste are allowed only in facilities that meet the prescribed conditions and which are under permanent veterinary control. These inspections must be carried out for verification over the effective state of health safety of raw materials, food products of animal origin in production and trade, including feed for animals as well as other products. These controls shall be performed regularly, also on a daily basis, as an inspection of animals and animal origin products for the purpose of determining health and hygiene correctness during production, slaughter, processing and trade (veterinary health examination). Veterinary health examination is applied to premises, equipment and installations, performance and regularity of execution over self-controls in related facility. These examinations, sampling, testing and monitoring must be applied to production methods and trade in raw materials, food products of animal origin, animal feed and other products and they must also be applied to animals, raw materials, products, food products of animal origin, animal feed, waste, wastewater, solid and liquid fertilizer, product use and substances, which come into contact with animals and materials for packaging of the same. The goal of implementing this Programme is to ensure that veterinary stations carry out veterinary health checks in food business facilities, in parallel with adopted principles of self-control (goods hygienic practice, maintenance of space and equipment, hygiene during work, personal hygiene, education, water control, control of related temperature, pest related controols, traceability, etc). Bearing in mind the importance of health and hygiene of food products, the achievement of these goals shall be done in order to minimize and reduced the risk to human and animal health.
Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2020-01-30