Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety

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Directorate-General of the European Commission European Union body

The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety is the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on public health, food safety, and related consumer protection.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety canonical	4
European Commission Directorate‑General for Health and Food Safety	1
European Union food safety bodies	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Directorate-General of the European Commission ⓘ European Union body ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	European Union ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
cooperatesWith	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ⓘ European Food Safety Authority ⓘ national food safety authorities of EU Member States ⓘ national health authorities of EU Member States ⓘ
country	European Union ⓘ
employer	civil servants of the European Commission ⓘ
follows	Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ⓘ
hasOfficialLanguage	English ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Belgium ⓘ Brussels, Belgium ⓘ surface form: Brussels
oversees	EU systems for rapid alert on food and feed ⓘ implementation of EU food safety legislation ⓘ implementation of EU public health legislation ⓘ
parentOrganization	European Commission Secretariat-General structure ⓘ surface form: European Commission Secretariat-General
partOf	European Commission ⓘ
policyArea	animal health ⓘ consumer protection ⓘ cross-border health threats ⓘ food safety ⓘ nutrition ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ plant health ⓘ public health ⓘ tobacco control ⓘ veterinary medicines ⓘ
responsibleFor	animal health policy in the European Union ⓘ consumer protection related to food and health in the European Union ⓘ cross-border health threats preparedness in the European Union ⓘ food and feed safety controls in the European Union ⓘ food safety policy in the European Union ⓘ nutrition and diet-related policies in the European Union ⓘ pharmaceuticals and medical products regulation at EU level ⓘ plant health policy in the European Union ⓘ public health policy in the European Union ⓘ tobacco control policy in the European Union ⓘ veterinary policy in the European Union ⓘ
sector	food regulation ⓘ health policy ⓘ public administration ⓘ
shortName	DG SANTE ⓘ
subjectTo	European Union legal order ⓘ surface form: European Union law
website	https://health.ec.europa.eu ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
Description of subject: The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety is the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on public health, food safety, and related consumer protection.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

European Commission → hasPart → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ

Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development → cooperatesWith → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ

department for food safety and veterinary affairs → worksWith → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ

subject surface form: Department for Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs (Germany)

this entity surface form: European Union food safety bodies

European Union pharmaceutical legislation → coordinatedBy → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Commission Directorate‑General for Health and Food Safety

DG SANTE → fullName → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ

DG SANTE → abbreviationMeaning → Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety ⓘ