Notifications relating to food business activities
If you sell fruit wine, sahti or craft beer to customers, you must submit a notification fo the food business activites to the Regional State Administrative Agency in your area. Alko Oy must notify the Regional State Administrative Agency of its retail outlets.
Report all other food businesses to the food control authorities in your municipality.
A link to Online service is given at the bottom of this page.
The Regional State Administrative Agency charges a fee for the processing of your notification.
You must notify the Regional State Administrative Agency of any changes in your sales of fruit wine, sahti or craft beer and any changes to the related premises. The Regional State Administrative Agency must also be notified of any changes in the premises and operations of Alko food premises.
Frequently asked questions
Oiva is a public access system for publishing food control reports, coordinated by the Finnish Food Authority. The results of food business control are published as soon as the authorities have completed the reporting. The results are published on a website using a scale of smileys. To search for Oiva reports by company name or address or by local authority, go to Oivahymy.fi.