The Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL) is the central expert body of Bavaria/Germany for food safety, health, animal health, occupational health and safety / product safety. It is the central institute for the official analysis, detection, and quantification of GMOs in food, feed and seed.

Goals and Tasks:
- Anticipating, assessing and responding to public health risks
- Encouraging people to adopt healthy lifestyles and behavior
- Informing consumers actively and quickly so as to protect them from deceptive or fraudulent practices
- Conducting application-oriented research in cooperation with universities and other authorities
- Acting as a service provider for the food inspection offices, the public health service, the official veterinary inspection system and the occupational health and safety authorities in Bavaria

Risk assessment:
- Testing of approx. 75,000 samples per year
- Networking with the scientific community
- Preparation of expert reports for both ministries and lower regional governments and authorities
- Interface to risk management bodies (enforcement)

Risk management:
- Bavarian contact office for all notifications under the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
- “Food Safety Task Force”

Risk communication:
- Information provider for authorities, consumers, associations and the media
- Dissemination of information through its annual report, the Internet, technical publications, press releases, - newsletters and during events
- Answering enquiries under the consumer and environmental information laws

Project and research work:
- Application-oriented research

The LGL analyses:
- food and feed for authenticity and origin, resi-dues and contaminants, health risks, correct labeling and composition
- the animal disease situation and individual cases of animal diseases in Bavaria and elaborates animal protection and animal drug control programs, thus contributing to animal health
- the public health situation in Bavaria, collecting data about health risks and developing prevention and action plans,
- the safety of products, helps to promote health and safety at the workplace and provides the technical foundation for the work of the Labor Inspectorate.

GMOs:
In the frame of offical control the LGL conducts analysis, detection, identification and quantification of GMOs in food, feed and seed.