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Food Standards (Proposal P1053 – Food Safety Management Tools) Variation

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this Standard under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991. The Standard commences on a date 12 months after the date of gazettal.

Dated 1 December 2022

Lisa Kelly
Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note:

This Standard will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 8 on December 2022. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of the above notice.

Standard 3.2.2A  Food Safety Management Tools

     Note 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.

     Note 2 This Standard applies in Australia only.

           3.2.2A—1 Name

           This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 3.2.2A – Food Safety Management Tools.

         Note Commencement:

           This Standard commences on a date that is 12 months after the date of gazettal, being the dates specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.

           3.2.2A—2 Definitions

           In this Standard:

           category one business—see 3.2.2A—6.

           category two business—see 3.2.2A—7.

           food safety supervisor means a person who:

              (a)           holds a food safety supervisor certificate that has been issued within the immediately preceding period of 5 years; and
              (b)           has the authority and ability to manage and give direction on the safe handling of food.

           food safety supervisor certificate means certification as a food safety supervisor by:

              (a)           a registered training organisation; or
              (b)           an organisation recognised by the *relevant authority under the application Act.

           food safety training course means training in food safety that includes training in each of the following:

              (a)           safe handling of food; and
              (b)           food contamination; and
              (c)            cleaning and sanitising of food premises and equipment; and
              (d)           personal hygiene.

           potentially hazardous food means food that has to be kept at certain temperatures to:

              (a)           minimise the growth of any pathogenic microorganisms that may be present in the food; or
              (b)           prevent the formation of toxins in the food.

           prescribed activity—see 3.2.2A—5.

           process, in relation to food, means activity conducted to prepare food for sale and includes chopping, cooking, drying, fermenting, heating, thawing and washing, or a combination of these activities.

           ready-to-eat food means food that is ordinarily consumed in the same state as that in which it is sold, but does not include:

              (a)           nuts in the shell; or
              (b)