FINLAND
Activities at Finnish Food Authority aim at ensuring food safety, promoting animal health and welfare, and developing the prerequisites for plant and animal production, and plant health. The chain from field to fork begins with seed. Using certified, i.e. officially inspected and approved seed, guarantees a high quality crop.
Finnish Food Authority is also responsible for the use of the funds provided by the European Union’s agricultural guarantee and rural development funds in Finland, operates as the EU’s paying agency and monitors the implementation of EU and national grants – farming subsidies, project, entrepreneurship and structural subsidies as well as market subsidies.
All seed marketed in Finland must be certified. The Finnish Food Authority inspects and supervises the quality of seed used in Finland. It also examines their quality through laboratory tests. Seed Certification Unit is responsible for field inspections, post control tests and certification. Seed Laboratory of Plant Analytics Unit does the laboratory tests.
Organisation
Finnish Food Authority
Address
Tampereentie 51,
FI-32200 Loimaa,
Finland
Phone
+358 29 530 0400
Website
Head (name)
Leena PIETILÄ
Other contacts
Section manager, Seed Certification Unit, Seed Certification
Ritva VALLIVAARA-PASTO
ritva.vallivaara-pasto@ruokavirasto.fi
Phone : +358 40 833 2482
Chief Specialist, Seed Certification Unit, Post Control and DUS-testing
Kaarina PAAVILAINEN
kaarina.paavilainen@ruokavirasto.fi
Phone : +358 40 833 2480
Head of Unit
Plant Analysis Laboratory
Elina SIEVILÄINEN
elina.sievilainen@ruokavirasto.fi
Phone : +358 40 848 6094
Laboratory manager, Plant Analysis Laboratory, Seed Laboratory
Hanna RANTA
hanna.ranta@ruokavirasto.fi
Phone : +358 40 027 2041