Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00304:reg:3:p15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00304
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 15/47)
Character Range: 77304–80226

controlled by meeting the operational hygiene requirements under section 5‑4.
 (10) For the purposes of paragraph (8)(c), a hazard is a significant hazard for operations in relation to milk or milk products if it (alone or in combination with other hazards) is of such a nature that its elimination, or control or reduction to an acceptable level, is essential for operations to prepare milk or milk products that are fit for human consumption.

5‑3  Equipment
  The proposed arrangement must provide for measures to ensure that measuring devices used for the purposes of complying with the requirements of Part 2 of this Chapter are accurately calibrated to assess compliance with those requirements.

5‑4  Operational hygiene
 (1) This section applies in relation to a proposed arrangement for operations to prepare prescribed milk or milk products at a registered establishment.

Establishment and its equipment
 (2) The proposed arrangement must provide for measures in relation to the establishment and its equipment to ensure that milk and milk products at the establishment are not contaminated by environmental contamination (including airborne or waterborne contamination).

Hygiene controls for processing
 (3) The proposed arrangement must provide for measures:
 (a) to protect the milk or milk products and their ingredients from contamination by any thing or activity; and
 (b) to minimise the growth in the milk or milk products and their ingredients of pathogens that could adversely affect the export of the milk or milk products as food that are fit for human consumption given the conditions under which they are to be stored, handled and transported; and
 (c) to ensure that the fitness for human consumption of the milk and milk products and their ingredients is not otherwise adversely affected.
 (4) Without limiting subsection (3), the proposed arrangement must provide for measures to prevent milk or milk products that are not fit for human consumption from being a source of contamination for prescribed milk or milk products or their ingredients.
 (5) Also without limiting subsection (3), the proposed arrangement must provide for measures to validate the effectiveness of temperature controls required under Part 2 of this Chapter.

Evaluation of fitness for consumption
 (6) The proposed arrangement must provide for procedures to evaluate the fitness for human consumption of:
 (a) all milk and milk products (including returned products) received at the establishment; and
 (b) all ingredients received at the establishment; and
 (c) all milk and milk products prepared at the establishment for export as food.

Requirement relating to water
 (7) The proposed arrangement must provide for all water (including used water, recirculated water and ice) used at the establishment to be potable unless the water is used only in circumstances (specified in the arrangement) where there is no risk