Since a couple of years the so called hygiene package is in use and the most important regulations are shown in the flow chart (1). It includes specific hygienic descriptions for food of animal origin (Reg. 854) and special prescriptions for the official safety for products of animal origin for human consumers. In connection with additional European regulations specially (Reg. 178) for prescription of all fundamentals of food and additional ways like the founding the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). These prescriptions were the basis of a totally new organisation of the new food hygiene legislation. By setting up directly working regulations for the memberstates it was the direct way for EU - States to work on the same basis. But there were special problems and not clarified processes in the use of the new hygiene regulation laws. The following article shall show some of these problems in the special fields of canteen catering and restaurants. In this way it is given special regard to the HACCP-concept.

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