FOOD ACT 2008 - SECT 81

FOOD ACT 2008 - SECT 81

81 .         Certificate of analysis

        (1)         This section applies to an analysis that is carried out for the purposes of this Act —

            (a)         by an approved laboratory; or

            (b)         by an approved analyst; or

            (c)         under the supervision of an approved analyst.

        (2)         On the completion of an analysis to which this section applies —

            (a)         the person in charge of the laboratory at which the analysis was carried out; or

            (b)         the approved analyst who carried out the analysis; or

            (c)         the approved analyst who supervised the carrying out of the analysis,

                must give the person who asked for the analysis, or an agent of the person, a certificate of analysis that complies with the requirements of subsection (3).

        (3)         The certificate of analysis must —

            (a)         be in the approved form; and

            (b)         be dated and signed by the person in charge of the laboratory at which the analysis was carried out or by the approved analyst who carried out the analysis or who supervised the carrying out of the analysis; and

            (c)         contain a written report of the analysis that sets out the findings; and

            (d)         specify the requirements, if any, of the Food Standards Code relating to the carrying out of the analysis and certify that the analysis was carried out in accordance with those requirements.