Contact information for import of foodstuffs and food contact materials

Foodstuffs of animal origin

(incl. meat products, fish products, milk products, eggs, honey and shellfish)

Private import

• EU countries: passenger import / presents imported from the EU countries, Norway or Switzerland: Bringing food for private use
• Non-EU countries: 

  • Border control

    rajatarkastus@ruokavirasto.fi

Commercial import

• EU countries: Contact your municipality's food control authority
• Non-EU countries: 

  • Border control

    rajatarkastus@ruokavirasto.fi

Fruit, vegetables and seeds

Private import

• tullineuvonta@tulli.fi

Commercial import

• yritysneuvonta.lupa-asiakkaat@tulli.fi

Other foodstuffs or food contact materials of non-animal origin

Private import

• Contact your municipality's food control authority

Commercial import

• EU countries: Contact your municipality's food control authority
• Non-EU countries: Contact the Customs

AGRIM import licences

(mandatory for rice; in addition, import tariff quotas for cereals, rice, sugar, olive oil, garlic, cultivated mushrooms, beef, pork, poultry meat, eggs and milk products)

• Non-EU countries:

  • AGRIM-import- and AGREX-export licences, FLEGT

    tuovi@ruokavirasto.fi

Organic products

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