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The priority classification system for food businesses

The priority classification system for food businesses A risk-based system designed to classify food businesses into priority ratings based on the risk they present to public health and safety This information paper outlines the system and describes how to apply it to food businesses [ full version pdf ] 1 The Priority Classification System for food businesses The Priority Classification System is a scoring system that classifies food businesses into risk categories based on the type of food, activity of the business, method of processing and customer base. Food businesses are assigned a score that relates to one of three priority classifications: high, medium and low. Individual scores for a specified set of risk…

Published December 2023

Thiamin levels in Australian breads: Results from the 2010 and 2012 national bread surveys

Thiamin levels in Australian breads: Results from the 2010 and 2012 national bread surveys (June 2016) This report presents thiamin content data from two bread analytical surveys undertaken in 2010 and 2012 under the Implementation Sub-committee for Food Regulation (ISFR) National Coordinated Survey Plan. The surveys were part of ongoing activities to monitor the impact of mandatory folic acid and iodine fortification of bread and were used by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to also determine the amount of thiamin in breads on the Australian market. The surveys sampled three types of breads commonly consumed by Australian from the capital cities of all states and territories. The samples were chemically analysed for the amounts of thiamin, folic acid and iodine they contained. The chemical analysis was undertaken by the National…

Published December 2023

Trans Fatty acids reports 2009

Trans Fatty acids reports 2009 Review Report - Trans Fatty Acids in the Australia and NZ Food Supply Intakes of Trans Fatty Acids in New Zealand and Australia Risk Assessment Report: Trans Fatty Acids in the Australia and NZ Food Supply - Update 2009 Round table on Trans Fats in the Quick Service Restaurant industry - Report on survey of progress of voluntary initiatives to reduce trans fatty acids in the Australian Food supply Report on Quick Service Restaurants plans and progress towards reducing Trans…

Published December 2023

Trans Fatty acids report 2007

Trans Fatty acids report 2007 Trans Fatty Acids in the New Zealand and Australian Food supply Attachments

Published December 2023

Transgenic food animals

Transgenic food animals A Survey of publicly available information (December 2003) By Gregory S. Harper* , Alan Brownlee, Thomas E. Hall, Robert Seymour, Russell Lyons, Patrick Ledwith CSIRO Livestock Industries, 306 Carmody Rd., St. Lucia, Qld 4067 Executive Summary The last decade of animal research has reinforced the view that some food-related qualities of animal products (e.g. eating quality and yield) are strongly influenced by the genotype of the animal. Likewise animal production performance characteristics (e.g. growth rate and disease resistance) have been improved by selective breeding. One significant advantage of transgenesis is in rapid genetic improvement of traits of interest, and a dramatic example…

Published December 2023

Values, Governments, and Food Regulation

Values, Governments, and Food Regulation In 2006, FSANZ commissioned the University of New South Wales to prepare a discussion paper on Values, Governments, and Food Regulation. The review, prepared by Dr Stephen Coleman, draws together the research relating to the increased attention on food safety, primarily focusing on ethics and public policy, but also political science. The review summarises the key points to be considered when attempting to develop an appropriate policy for government intervention in the production and sale of food. The key issues explored include:

• the role of government in liberal democracies such as Australia and New Zealand,
• issues of individual rights to liberty and autonomy, and
• the role that values can appropriately play in the development of governmental policy with…

  Published December 2023

A1080 - Food derived from Herbicide-tolerant Cotton Line MON88701

A1080 - Food derived from Herbicide-tolerant Cotton Line MON88701     The purpose of this application is to seek permission for food derived from genetically modified cotton tolerant to dicamba and glufosinate ammonium herbicides. Approval Report - 5 November 2013 ( 642 kb)

• Supporting document 1 - Safety assessment (at Approval) ( 1374 kb)

Published December 2023