Państwowa Inspekcja Sanitarna

One of the basic duty of each state is to ensure food safety. The Polish institution, which is designated to carry out tasks of ensuring food safety in Poland is the State Sanitary Inspection (PIS).The goal of this institution is, among others, supervision of hygiene conditions in the scope indicated by the legislator, including health conditions of food, nourishment and items of use. Toguarantee food safety PIS primary is taken operation in the field of current sanitary supervision.The tasks of the PIS are performed by the public administration bodies determined by the legislator which are Chief Sanitary Inspector (GIS), the state regional sanitary inspector, as the governmental administration body in the region, the state district sanitary inspector, as the governmental administration body in the district and the state border sanitary inspector for the border crossing areas, airports, seaports and vessels in the territorial waters. The auxiliary institutions of state sanitary inspectors are the sanitary and epidemiological stations under their control.In order to fulfill the duties imposed on state sanitary, the state sanitary inspectors and GIS have a lot of rights, primarily control, determined by the legislator