Submit a notification of food operations when you start, make significant changes to, suspend or end your operations.
If your company handles food of animal origin in the food premises before delivery to retail, you must apply for approval from the City’s Food Safety Unit.
You must submit a notification to the City’s environmental services if you operate, for example, a beauty parlour, hotel, school, daycare centre or sports facility.
You must submit a notification about the commencement, substantial change, change of operator or termination of activities involving food contact materials.
Submit a registration notification for primary production to the supervision of foodstuffs run by the city.
You must submit written notifications on the commencement and termination of food export and import operations to the City of Helsinki environmental services.
You need a retail licence for tobacco products, nicotine-containing liquids and nicotine products.
Establishing a water plant or distributing domestic water requires an application or notification, as specified in the Health Protection Act.
As a food business operator, you must submit a notification to the municipal supervision of foodstuffs if the food you sell or serve is suspected of having caused food poisoning, an allergic reaction or other harm.
The purpose of food labelling is to ensure that the consumers get truthful information about the content of the food. This is the reason labelling is obligated and prescribed under the law. Unpacked foodstuff must also be provided with information.
