A hygiene passport is proof of food hygiene competence. Its purpose is to ensure that people working in the food sector know how to handle food safely and hygienically.
You must have a hygiene passport if you work in a food premises and handle unpackaged perishable food products.
The hygiene passport is personal. You can obtain it by passing a hygiene passport test administered within the Finnis ...
A list of hygiene passport testers is available on the Finnish Food Authority’s website.
A hygiene passport is required for persons who work in food premises and handle unpackaged perishable food products.
Employees must be able to demonstrate their food hygiene competence with a hygiene passport no later than three months after starting work that requires one.
The hygiene passport is valid indefinitely.
Food Act (297/2021)