What rules apply to me as a food business operator? Here you will find essential information about running a business in the food sector.
A food business is any operation that produces, distributes, mediates, stores, sells, or serves food products.
The term “food” includes beverages, confectionery, dietary supplements, drinking water, and snuff — not just what we commonly refer to as “food”
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Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
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Use: Used to identify a session between client and server.
Time: Expires when the browser is closed
Classification: Necessary
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Type: Session cookie
Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
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Time: Expires when the browser is closed
Classification: Necessary
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Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: Encrypted string with group information
Use: Used to store the groups to which a user belongs.
Time: Expires when the browser is closed
Classification: Necessary
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: String
Use: Used to store the visitor's cookie settings.
Time: 365 days.
Classification: Necessary
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Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: String
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Time: 90 days.
Classification: Necessary
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: String
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Time: 90 days.
Classification: Necessary
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Use: Set by Text Help to enable talking web functions, add-ons for accessibility and reading support for users.
Time: Until further notice.
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Domain: Text Help (third party)
Data: String
Use: Set by Text Help to enable talking web functions, add-ons for accessibility and reading support for users.
Time: Until further notice.
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Domain: Text Help (third party)
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Use: Set by Text Help to enable talking web functions, add-ons for accessibility and reading support for users.
Time: Until further notice.
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: String
Use: Used by Vizzit to calculate visitor statistics on the Swedish Food Agency's website.
Time: The cookie expires after one year from the date it was set or last updated. The information stored cannot be linked to an individual user.
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Use: Set by e-space to identify whether you have previously responded to the user survey on the Swedish Food Agency's website. The information stored cannot be linked to an individual user.
Time: 365 days.
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Type: Local Storage
Domain: e-space.se (third party)
Data: String
Use: Set by e-space to identify which pages have been visited and how long the visitor has spent on the website. The information stored cannot be linked to an individual user.
Time: Until further notice.
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: e-space.se (third party)
Data: String
Use: Set by e-space when a user survey is shown. It contains a unique randomly generated user ID.
Time: 13 months.
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: e-space.se (third party)
Data: String
Use: Set by e-space when a user survey is shown. It contains attribution information about the reference to the website.
Time: 6 months.
Classification: Statistics
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Type: Session cookie
Domain: e-space.se (third party)
Data: String
Use: Set by e-space when a user survey is shown. It contains attribution information about the reference to the website.
Time: Expires when the browser is closed.
Classification: Statistics
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Type: Permanent cookie
Domain: www.livsmedelsverket.se (first party)
Data: String
Use: This cookie is no longer set, as of October 2021, but was previously used to see whether a visitor accepted the use of cookies.
Time: The cookie expires after one year from the date it was set or last updated.
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Time: Expires when the browser is closed.
Classification: Necessary
