What is the Nutrition Base

The Nutrition Base is a publicly available register with the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency where all business operators selling food to consumers, including catering, restaurants and wholesale businesses, must be registered in order to legally run their business.

The Nutrition Base therefore includes a list of all such businesses. You can see the name of the proprietor and the address of the business.

Legislation about the Nutrition Base has two objectives:

• to ensure that the person operating a food business knows the most important rules about food, occupational health and safety, deposits on packaging and tax and duties.
• to allow for the possibility that persons (or undertakings) who repeatedly breach the legislation or breach it with aggravating factors, can be deleted from the Nutrition Base for a period in which they may not operate this type of undertaking.

Anyone can look up a business in the Nutrition Base and see whether it has a nutrition letter to operate a food business.

The Nutrition Base also includes another database which is closed to the public. Here authorities that perform check-ups, e.g. SKAT and the regional veterinary and food control authority, can register significant breaches of legislation etc.

The Nutrition Base provides a list of the food businesses, enabling much easier, targeted and efficient checks to the benefit of the food sector and its customers.

The courts may order that you lose your right to operate a food business for a period of five years. The courts may also be involved temporarily if decided by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.