Head Office

Administration, development, co-ordination and the formation of rules and regulations take place in the head office of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration in Mørkhøj near Copenhagen.

Furthermore the Meat Inspection Unit is part of the head office, but placed in Vejle in the eastern part of Jutland. The Meat Inspection Unit monitors whether food laws are complied with during the slaughter of the animals, the cutting of the meat and the processing of meat and meat products at slaughterhouses and meat product companies. The meat inspection is the most comprehensive area of inspection under the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. Read more

Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of the executive director and three deputy directors.

Executive Director, Esben Egede Rasmussen, tel.: +45 33 95 60 02, mobile +45 25 57 18 03, e-mail: eer@fvst.dk

Chief Veterinary Officer, Jan Mousing, tel.: +45 33 95 61 15, e-mail: jam@fvst.dk

Deputy Director, Annelise Fenger, tel.: +45 33 95 64 05, e-mail: af@fvst.dk

Financial director, Lars Gregersen, tel.: +45 33 95 61 38, e-mail: lagr@fvst.dk

Management Secretariat
The Secretariat is responsible for:

General secretariat functions for the Executive Board
Minister related service
Policy development
Coordinating functions, including strategy development and simplification of the regulation
Strategic and policy-oriented management information

Head of the secretariat: Trine Bødker, tel.: +45 33 95 60 62, e-mail: tbn@fvst.dk

Secretariat for Legal Affairs
This secretariat is responsible for:

Coordination of legal advisory services for the Veterinary and Food Administration including legislative technique service
Coordination and preparation of the annual Legislation Program
Coordination of input for cases before the European Court of Justice
Administrative Law including i.e. the Public Administration Act, the Open Administration Act and the Personal Data Act
Public Tender and Contractual Law
Legal assistance for the Veterinary Health Council.

Head of Secretariat: Ulrich Pinstrup, tel. +45 33 95 60 97, e-mail: ulpi@fvst.dk

Secretariat to the Veterinary Health Counsil
The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration gives secretariat assistance to the Veterinary Health Counsil.

Professional Secretary: Lissi vestergaard Karlsen, Veterinarian
tel.: +45 33 95 63 21

Animal Health Division
This division is responsible for:

Monitoring and combating exotic livestock diseases such as foot and mouth, hog cholera and Newcastle disease.
Other livestock diseases in cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, fur-bearing animals, poultry and fish.
BSE/TSE (monitoring and control in relation to herds and flocks).
Monitoring and control of classic zoonoses (diseases that spreads between animals but can cause illness in humans).
Registration and identification of livestock.
Veterinary preparedness: strategic and operational contingency planning.
VetAlert a computer system for handling suspected cases and actual outbreaks of livestock diseases.
National trade in live animals.
Validation and certification of enterprises that process non-food.
Certification of zoological gardens and farms open to visitors.

Head of Division: Birgit Hendriksen, tel.: +45 33 95 60 36, e-mail bh@fvst.dk

Control Coordination Division
This division is responsible for:

Control principles and strategies.
Veterinary and food control in general, including the development of tools for the regional centres to ensure uniform quality in their performance of the control effort.
Instructing the regional veterinary and food control centres in general inspection matters.
Supervision of the regional veterinary and food control centres.
Case follow-up in relation to the inspection performed by the regional veterinary and food control centres.
Internal control.
Coordination of regional laboratories and central coordination of laboratory projects.
Traceability.
Publicising inspection results.
Collecting and processing data from the inspection and the regional veterinary and food centres.

Head of Division: Bettine Aundrup, tel.: +45 33 95 60 08, e-post: beau@fvst.dk

International Trade Division
This division is responsible for:

Control of trade, including the import and export of live animals, semen, eggs, embryos, foodstuffs and non-food products.
Travel with pets.
Border control.
Export certificates.
TRACES.
Serving as a contact point for the Rapid Alert System.
Keeping lists of enterprises certified for exporting products to specific third countries.
Planning and organising inspection visits and international inspection procedures.
Civil emergency response.
The Audit Unit.
Coordinating the Administration's tasks in Greenland, including the Greenland Veterinary Service.
Coordination of the telephone on-call scheme for acute queries outside normal opening hours.
EU veterinary agreements with third countries.

Head of Division: Jens Munk Ebbesen tel.: +45 33 95 62 83, e-mail:jme@fvst.dk

Division for Microbiological Food Safety, Hygiene and Zoonoses Control
This division is responsible for:

Strategies and action plans to combat pathogens such as campylobacter in foodstuffs and salmonella and salmonellosis in foodstuffs and livestock.
Microbiological contamination.
Tracing the route of infection in the event of food-borne illnesses.
Hygiene, fitting up and operation of food companies.
Hygiene training.
Authorisation and registration of food companies.
BSE/TSE (food safety).
Zoonoses Register.
Monitoring zoonoses in general (food-borne).

Head of Division: Karin Breck, tel.: +45 33 95 61 90, e-mail:kara@fvst.dk

Division for Chemical Food Safety, Animal Welfare and Veterinary Medicinal Products
This division is responsible for:

Control with the use of veterinary medicinal products, including herd health consultancy agreements.
Tracing in the event of chemically-associated food-borne illnesses.
Medicine squad for control with illegal use of veterinary medicinal products.
Chemical contamination of food, including dioxin, heavy metals, pesticides and veterinary medicines.
Materials and objects in contact with foodstuffs.
Cleaning and desinfection agents.
Licensing of veterinary surgeons.
Register of veterinary surgeons.
Animal welfare.
Animal Welfare Team located in Herning.

Head of Division: Per Henriksen, tel.: +45 33 95 60 06, e-mail: pesh@fvst.dk

Division for Food Quality, Techonology and Marketing Practices
This division is responsible for:

Livestock.
Zootomic science (breeding conditions).
Organic food products.
Organic non-food products.
Product standards, trade norms and market schemes.
Genetic engineering and other novel foods.
Irradiation of foodstuffs.
Additives in foodstuffs, including aromatics and enzymes.
Marketing of foodstuffs, including misleading information.
Labelling of food products.
Specific labelling schemes, including schemes regarding beef, geographic designations, designations of origin and specificities.
Tasks for the Veterinary Health Council, including the Livestock Act and the Veterinary Surgeon Act.

Head of Division: Marie Louise Flach de Neergaard, tel.: +45 33 95 61 64, e-mail: mlfn@fvst.dk

Division for Nutrition
This division is responsible for:

Promotion of good dietary habits among children and adults.
Prevention of obesity among children and adults (in cooperation with the National Board of Health).
Provision of information to segments of the population with special nutritional needs.
Enriched foodstuffs.
Dietary supplements.
Special nutrition.
Nutritional assertions and health-related assertions.
Nutrition information declarations.

Head of Division: Else Molander, tel.: +45 33 95 60 37, e-mail: elmo@fvst.dk

Communication Division
This division is responsible for:

Planning, development and implementation of communications policy and strategy.
Press contacts and consultancy related to this.
Digital communications and the website of the Veterinary and Food Administration.
Nutrition information and the information website service Alt om Kost.
Editing and publication of reports, brochures, etc.
Information campaigns and teaching materials.
Internal communications and the Intranet.

Head of Communications: Sidsel Addington, tel.: +45 26 81 30 25, e-mail: siad@fvst.dk

Division for International Coordination
This division is responsible for:

Coordination of matters related to international and supranational organisations such as the EU (Council, CVO, SCoFCAH ect.), Nordic cooperation, Codex Alimentarius and OIE
Secretariat services for the Ministry Department and the minister in handling the national 'EU procedure' and EU legislative procedures. Coordination of ministers participation in export promotion activities, ect.
Coordination of input for cases before the European Court of Justice
International affairs - support and coordination.
Assistance for third countries concerning development of food and veterinary safety

Head of Office: Knud Østergaard, tel.: +45 33 95 61 20, e-mail: koe@fvst.dk

Finance and Accounts Division
This division is responsible for:

Appropriations, allocations, budget and accounts.
Overall activity and finance management, as well as reporting.
Bookkeeping.
Procurement, travel administration and publications.

Head of Division, Kim Hastrup, tel.: +45 33 95 63 30, e-mail: kimh@fvst.dk
Head of Division, Søren Abildgaard, tel.: +45 33 95 56 15, e-mail: sobi@fvst.dk

Human Resources Division
This division is responsible for:

Human resources development.
Personnel administration.
Organisational development.
Administration of supplementary training offers and competency development.
Payroll administration, including regional payroll administration.
Case management unit, including common records for the head office of the Veterinary and Food Administration.
Secretariat for the Joint Liaison Committee and the Joint Health and Safety Committee.
Secretariat for the divisional Liaison Committee and the divisional Health and Safety Committee in the head office of the Veterinary and Food Administration.

Head of Human Resources: Susanne Juul Jarlov, tel.: +45 33 95 60 86, e-mail: sjja@fvst.dk

IT Division
This division is responsible for:

IT management and organisation.
Corporate IT in the Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs.
IT strategy and policy.
Project management.
IT security management.
IT service delivery and support.
IT operations.

Head of the IT Division: Annette Madsen, tel.: +45 33 95 63 02, e-mail: anm@fvst.dk