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New safety standards for food businesses

New food safety standards will come into effect on Friday 8 December 2023 with updated training requirements that will impact most Victorian food businesses.

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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has updated the Safe Food Australia Guide with a new set of guidelines known as the Standard 3.2.2A Food Safety Management Tool.

This change will affect businesses that prepare and serve food. This generally includes caterers, restaurants, cafes, takeaway shops, pubs, supermarkets and delis, food vans and other facilities serving food.

The new standard means that businesses must implement two or three food safety management tools based on their food handling activities:

  • food safety supervisor
  • food handler training
  • substantiation of critical food safety controls.

Food businesses will now fall under two categories.

Category 1 businesses will be deemed higher risk and must implement all three management tools. These include caterers or food service businesses that processes unpackaged potentially hazardous food into food that is both ready-to-eat and potentially hazardous food. The food is then served to a consumer to eat without any further processing.

Category 2 businesses must have a food safety supervisor and food handler training. ​This category includes a retailer of potentially hazardous, ready-to-eat food, where the food was handled unpackaged, but not made or processed onsite (other than slicing, weighing, repacking, reheating or hot-holding).

For more on the new standard and to see which category your business falls into, visit the Food Standards website for a Standard 3.2.2A – Food Safety Management Tools overview.

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