The Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment was set up in 2001. Its competencies were transferred from :

  • the former Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Environment
  • the regionalized Ministry of Agriculture

The following scientific establishments are linked to the FPS and carry out research into policy-supporting matters or issue advisory reports :

  • Sciensano, Federal Research Centre
  • The Superior Health Council

The Federal Agency for Food Chain Security is responsible for all verifications with regard to food safety.

Our Policy Domains

  • Health

    We organize health care in Belgium. Our areas of expertise include, among others, hospital financing, health care policy and emergency medical aid co-ordination.

  • Food

    We ensure product safety at all levels of the food chain and we enforce the food safety standards set in the European legislation. We also implement standards and conduct checks on tobacco and alcohol products and cosmetics.

  • Animals and Plants

    We promote animal and plant health. Our areas of expertise include, among others, ensuring the quality and safety of animal products, protection against plant diseases, pesticides, fertilizers and soil improvers, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

  • Environment

    We strive for a high-quality environment for all. We manage, inter alia, the integrated product policy, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the REACH convention, the co-ordination of the international environmental policy, the protection of the North Sea, and the CITES convention.

Our mission

With the ambition to protect and improve the health of citizens, our FPS intends to be the Belgian promoter of the "One World, One Health" principle, by placing health and all its components at the heart of our concerns and missions, including human health, the health of the planet, animal and plant health and food.

Our Values

Acknowledgment

Every person counts

Collaboration

One World, One Health, One Team


 

At the service of society

Neutrally serving the common good

Responsibility

Acting as effectively as possible for health and the environment

Sustainability

Thinking and acting sustainably

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Our ministers

  • Frank Vandenbroucke

    Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health, responsible for Poverty Reduction

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  • David Clarinval

    Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Employment, Economy and Agriculture

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  • Jean-Luc Crucke

    Minister of Mobility, Climate and Ecological Transition

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  • Annelies Verlinden

    Minister of Justice, responsible for the North Sea

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