The Australian Dairy Corporation will continue to carry out generic promotion of milk and dairy products. Farm gate price regulation and the supply management functions also ceased on the 30 th of June. Sales data collection and milk auditing are no longer carried out and processors are free to negotiate the price at which they purchase milk from dairy farmers. The main role of the dairy division will now be a food safety audit function for the industry. Farm, milk tanker, milk depot and milk vendor audits are required once a year.
Factories generally require more frequent auditing.
Licensing of food and dairy premises will continue to be carried out by Safe Food. Funding will be derived through a combination of audit and licensing fees, and Government funding. The organisation has undergone a restructure that has seen its workforce reduced from 65 to 29 in ten weeks. At the moment staff are finishing transitional tasks required with the winding up of the Dairy Corporation. The primary focus is now food safety and the organisation has been structured around that.