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Bosnia & Herzegovina: for restaurants and takeaways

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina the app follows the Food Law (Zakon o hrani, Sl. glasnik BiH 50/04) and its rulebooks on food hygiene (4/13) and food information (68/13). The inspectors of your entity inspect, every kitchen needs a HACCP-based system, and restaurants must give allergen information.

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Bosnia & Herzegovina: food hygiene rules

Inspection body
The entity inspectorates (the Federation and its cantons, Republika Srpska, Brčko District), with rules set by the Food Safety Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public rating
No
Languages in the app
Hrvatski, English

Your inspection

The Food Safety Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina sets the rules. Three inspection systems inspect: in the Federation, the Federal Inspection Administration and the cantonal inspectorates; in Republika Srpska, the Republic Inspection Administration; and in Brčko District, the District Inspectorate.

After a visit the inspector writes a report and tells you what to put right and by when. The inspector can fine the business (the amounts differ between the entities), take unsafe food off the market and, if health is at risk, stop the activity.

Hygiene rating

Bosnia and Herzegovina has no public hygiene rating, sticker or score, and nothing has to be displayed. Chef Hygiene shows no rating card for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“Law” is a binding rule. “Official guidance” is not law, but inspectors expect it. “Chef Hygiene default” is a value the app checks against where no rule gives a number.

Temperatures

  • LawThe food hygiene rulebook (Sl. glasnik BiH 4/13) asks you to keep the cold chain. It gives no numbers for a restaurant.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultChilled food: Chef Hygiene checks 4°C or colder. Frozen food: −18°C or colder.
  • Official guidanceCooking: core 75°C, or 70°C for 2 minutes. Good practice (the Food Safety Agency's catering guide), not law.
  • Official guidanceHot holding: 63°C or hotter. Good practice, not law.
  • Official guidanceCooling: to 10°C or colder within about 2 hours, then into the fridge. Good practice, not law.
  • Official guidanceReheating: core 75°C. Good practice, not law.

Staff, training and health

  • LawFood handlers must be trained in food hygiene for their work. Chef Hygiene keeps each person's certificate and a training log.
  • Official guidanceIn the Federation, food handlers need a health check (sanitarna knjižica). How often, and the rules in Republika Srpska and Brčko District, we could not confirm: ask your inspector.
  • LawStaff who are ill with something that can pass through food stay away from food work.

Allergens

  • LawRestaurants must give customers information on the 14 allergens (the food information rulebook, Sl. glasnik BiH 68/13; the same list as the EU).
  • Official guidanceWe advise keeping it in writing, on a poster, a board or the menu. We could not confirm whether the law asks for writing.

Fire safety checks

  • Official guidanceThe fire brigade is 123. Ambulance 124, police 122.
  • Official guidanceGas work only by a qualified gas engineer.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultExtinguishers, fire alarm and electrics: Chef Hygiene suggests dates you can change. No exact interval was confirmed.

Records

  • LawThe kitchen must run a HACCP-based food safety system (the food hygiene rulebook, Sl. glasnik BiH 4/13).
  • LawBefore opening: register the business with the competent authority of your entity, canton or Brčko District.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultChef Hygiene asks for fridge checks twice a day and keeps every record in one place for the inspector.

Official sources

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This page is general information, not legal advice. Check with your local authority.

Bosnia & Herzegovina: the Chef Hygiene app

The app loads these rules for your kitchen, checks your records against them and keeps proof for the inspector.

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