Pursuant to Article 413 of the Presidential Decree No. 1 on the Organization of the Presidency
The duties and authorities of the General Directorate of Food and Control are as follows:
a) To provide reliable food and feed supply, to carry out studies for establishing policies in this respect and to inspect the implementation
b) To determine the principles for the traceability of food, food additives and substances and materials in contact with foods at all stages of production, processing and marketing
c) To specify the qualifications of workplaces producing food, food additives and substances and materials in contact with food and the principles of permission and registration thereof, to make their transactions of permission and registration, to register these workplaces in the food register, to make or have controls and inspections of production and sales places.
ç) To determine and announce the entrance and exit customs gates of food, food additives and feeds and substances and materials in contact with food by receiving the opinions of relevant institutions; to specify veterinary border control points and their working principles
d) To identify and audit the principles regarding the registration, sale and inspection of feed and feed additives
e) To determine the approval principles of enterprises engaged in the production and sale of feed and feed additives and to make their approval procedures,
f) To establish the animal identification system and to control animal movements,
g) To determine health conditions related to the foreign trade of live stocks, plants, animal and vegetable products, food and feed; to identify and carry out border control points and their operating principles
ğ) To take measures for the purpose of protecting consumers and public health by considering plant, animal, food and feed safety,
h) To make studies in order to provide animal welfare,
ı) To determine and audit the principles for certification of laboratories operating in animal and plant health and food and feed,
i) To carry out control and follow-up procedures related to processing and marketing of animal products and to determine the relevant principles,
j) To conduct animal health services and fighting animal diseases and to determine relevant principles,
k) To determine and announce the conditions of manufacturing, sale, transportation and storage of therapeutic and protective substances used in animal health and their active and auxiliary substances,
l) To specify the principles of institutions and organizations operating in animal health, diagnosis and treatment services, and principles related to animal sales, slaughtering and training places and shelters,
m) To protect plant health, to fight against plant diseases and pests and to determine the relevant principles,
n) To establish plant passport system, to control plant and plant product movements, to determine the norms and characteristics of the products used in plant protection and principles related to giving approval, to make approval and control procedures,
o) To determine the principles of risk management in order to ensure plant and animal health and food and feed safety, to make risk assessment and to ensure risk communication,
ö) To specify the qualifications, working procedures and principles of the staff to be assigned in the protection of animal and plant health and food and feed control,
p) To carry out other duties assigned by the Minister.