National legislation

The objects of this Act, consisting of 14 Parts and one Schedule, include the following: (a) to ensure food for sale is both safe and suitable for human consumption; (b) to prevent misleading conduct in connection with the sale of food; and (c) to provide for...

The purpose of this Act is to provide a regulatory system under which all sectors in the seafood supply chain are required to manage food safety risks in accordance with the relevant applicable standards. In particular, the Act provides for a scheme to regulate the safety...

The Act further provides for: general functions and powers of the Director of Public Health; functions and powers of councils; appointment of authorized officers; offences; etc. ...

This Act, consisting of 144 sections divided into eleven Parts and completed by two Schedules, deals with the handling and sale of food, objectives of the Act include: (a) to ensure food for sale is both safe and suitable for human consumption, (b) to prevent misleading...

The object of this Regulation is to set the food safety programs. ...

Part 10 regulates procedural and evidentiary provisions, for instance it recognizes liability of employees and agents, unless they prove that they were under the personal supervision of the proprietor of the food business, or the owner or person in charge of the premises. Offences by corporations....

This Act, consisting of 153 sections divided into twelve Parts, concerns the safety and suitability of food in the territory of South Australia. The objects of the Act include ensuring food for sale is both safe and suitable for human consumption, preventing misleading conduct in connection...

Principal amendments to the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991: in to subsection 3(1) insert: Australia New Zealand Joint Food Standards Agreement means the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of New Zealand Establishing a System for the Development of Joint Food...

These Regulations stipulate that the pork production, beekeeping and egg production industries are prescribed as agricultural industries and the services in section 12(1) of the Act shall be prescribed as services that a producers’ committee may provide in relation to the industry. ...

This Act establishes the Safe Food Production QLD and provides for food safety matters relating to the production of primary produce; it consists of 142 sections and is divided into 12 Parts. The Safe Food Production QLD is a body corporate and does not represent the...

This Act concerns the production and distribution of milk and dairy products in the territory of Victoria. It establishes and regulates the operation of the Dairy Food Safety Victoria authority, establishes a licensing system for the dairy industry and provides for the implementation of a code...

Particular attention should be paid to Part 7 concerning prohibited residues in foodstuffs. When an inspector believes on reasonable grounds that a quantity of a prescribed foodstuff contains a prohibited residue he may, with the consent of the Registrar, serve a notice containing: (a) the name...

Regulation 4 declares: a) meat that is, or has been, in a container labelled or marked as containing: (i) pet food; or (ii) inedible meat; or (iii) pharmaceutical material; or (b) meat that is stained in a way that identifies it as pet food or inedible...

This Act empowers the Secretary of the Department, subject to provisions of Part 2, to grant a person a licence, in writing, to export meat from Australia or to export live-stock from Australia. The Secretary must not grant an export licence unless satisfied that conditions set...

This Act concerns the internal and international markets for the meat industry by providing for the wholesome processing of meat for human consumption. Other objectives of the Act are to ensure that pet meat produced for pet food or bait meat, is not substituted for meat...

Amendments relative to cooperation in the field of food between Australia and New Zealand and the introduction of food standards which apply to both New Zealand and Australia. The National Food Authority is continued in existence as the Australia New Zealand Food Authority. The Council established...

These Regulations implement provisions of the Meat and Livestock Industry Act, 1995, which relate to the meat or livestock export business. The regulations carry, inter alia, the following titles: Meat unfit for human consumption (Reg. 4); Application for export licence (Reg. 5); Documents to accompany application...

For the purposes of section 15(1) of the Act, the certificate of the analyst giving the results of the analysis of food submitted to him shall be in accordance with Form 1 (reg. 3). Regulation 4 makes provision with respect to sealing and marking of containers...

These Regulations list stockfood non-active constituents which are excluded from the class of stockfood non-active constituents declared to be veterinary chemical products for purposes of paragraph 8(1)(d) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations. ...

These Regulations implement provisions of the Act with respect to the following matters: appropriate government agencies; application, modification and adaptation of Part 3 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (sect. 36 of the Act); disclosure of confidential commercial information; Board of Food Standards...