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Norwegian Food Safety Authority

Index Norwegian Food Safety Authority

Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for safe food and drinking water, and works within the fields of human, plant, fish and animal health as well as environmentally friendly production and ethically acceptable farming of animals and fish. [1]

26 relations: Animal, Animal ethics, Ås, Akershus, Bergen, Cosmetics, Director general, Drinking water, Etat, Fish, Food administration, Food safety, Government agency, Harald Gjein, Health, List of municipalities of Norway, Medication, Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Norway), Norway, Norwegian Agricultural Inspection Service, Oslo, Plant, Plant health, Sandnes, Seafood, Vegetarian cuisine, Veterinary medicine.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Animal ethics

Animal ethics is a term used in academia to describe human-animal relationships and how animals ought to be treated.

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Ås, Akershus

Ås is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Cosmetics

Cosmetics are substances or products used to enhance or alter the appearance of the face or fragrance and texture of the body.

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Director general

A director general or director-general (plural: directors generals, sometimes director generals) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.

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Drinking water

Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.

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Etat

Etat (pl. "etater") is a Norwegian state-, county- or municipal agency.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Food administration

A food safety agency or food administration is a kind of agency found in various countries and international organizations with responsibilities related to food, primarily with ensuring the safety of food sold or distributed to the population, and with ensuring that food sellers inform the population of the origins and health qualities and risks associated with food being sold.

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Food safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent food-borne illness.

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Government agency

A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency.

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Harald Gjein

Harald Gjein (born 3 June 1955 in Stokke) is a Norwegian veterinarian and civil servant, and the current Director-General of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority.

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Health

Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (fylker in Norwegian, singular: fylke), and 422 municipalities (kommuner/-ar, singular: kommune – cf. communes).

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Norway)

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Landbruks- og matdepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established on February 17, 1900, and is responsible for agriculture, forestry and food in Norway.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegian Agricultural Inspection Service

Norwegian Agricultural Inspection Service (Landbrukstilsynet) is a defunct Norwegian government agency that was responsible for inspection of farms and agricultural facilities in the country.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Plant health

Plant health is concerned with.

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Sandnes

is a city and municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.

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Seafood

Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans.

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Vegetarian cuisine

Vegetarian cuisine is based on food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products (such as gelatin or animal-derived rennet).

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals.

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Redirects here:

Mattilsynet, Norwegian Food Control Authority, Statens næringsmiddeltilsyn.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Food_Safety_Authority

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