Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Food Act 1984 - SECT 19BA

Outline of this Part

19BA. Outline of this Part



(1) In outline this Part-



* requires the proprietors of declared food businesses to have a food safety
program to assist in preventing and controlling dangerous incidents arising
from the sale and handling of food;

* provides for proprietors to choose to create their own food safety program,
or, in most cases, to choose to use a standard food safety program (which is a
food safety program developed by individual proprietors from a set of
instructions known as a food safety program template);

* provides for proprietors who choose, or who are required, to create their
own food safety program to have the program independently audited at certain
intervals in accordance with this Part;

* provides for proprietors who choose to use a standard food safety program to
not have to have the program audited, but to be liable to have their
compliance with the food safety program checked by the registration authority
at certain intervals;

* requires proprietors to ensure that there is a food safety supervisor for
their food premises.

(2) This section is intended only as a guide to readers as to the general
scheme and effect of this Part.