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What does FSANZ stand for ?

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Food Standards Australia New Zealand

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What are the three levels of government that play a a role in maintaining food safety in Australia

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  1. National Authorities
  2. State Authorities
  3. Local Authorities
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What are the responsibilities of Food Standards Australia and New Zealand?

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  • Developing and reviewing standards for foods in Australia and new Zealand ( food standards code ) –> food labelling and food safety (HACCP)
  • Coordination for food surveillance, department of agriculture and recalls
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What is the role of the Australian government department of agriculture?

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Is to develop and implement policies and programs that ensure Australia’s agriculture, fisheries, food and forestry industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable

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What are the responsibilities of Australian government of agriculture?

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  • Import food inspection
  • Exports from Australia
  • Border protection and quarantine
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What are the responsibilities of state authorities ?

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  • Develop food safety programs based on HACCP
  • Notify local government of food recalls
  • Issues ‘closing orders’ in case of food poisoning
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What are the responsibilities of local authorities ?

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  • Registers food business and check HAACP plan
  • Monitor all food sites in local area ( enivronmental health officer )
  • Inspect all food premesis in the municipality
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What are the key goals of Food standards Australia new Zealand ?

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  • MAINTAIN a safe food supply
  • Provide adequate information to the consumer, so they can make better decisions
  • prevent misleading or deceptive conduct
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What does the food standards code cover ?

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  • identity/ description of given food
  • composition, permitted ingredients and additives
  • nutrient value
  • permitted micro-organisim levels
  • ways to measure quantitative qualities of food e.g fibre levels
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How many chapters are in the food standards code ?

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4 chapters

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What is chapter 1 of the food standards code and what does it include ?

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  1. General food standards
    - labelling
    - permitted additives
    - permitted amounts of contaminants and residues
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What is chapter 2 of the food standards code and what does it include?

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  1. food product standards
    - describe exactly what a food must contain
    - composition and microbiological makeup
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What is chapter 3 of the food standards code? and what does it include?

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  1. Food safety standards, standards for food hygiene
    - Food safety programs:HAACP
    - Food safety practises
    - Safe food premises
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What is chapter 4 of the food standards code ? what does it include ?

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  1. Primary production standards

- The whole food chain from producer to consumer based on HACCP

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define HACCP

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a series of steps that examines every stage of production and identify and hazard that may occur

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What are critical control points?

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They are identified and strategies put in place to prevent food becoming unsafe

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What laws and statements or words that must apply for food labelling?

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  • Must appear on a label
  • May under certain conditions appear on a label
  • must not appear on a label
  • Must be written in english and be clearly visible
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Name 5 food labelling requirements

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  1. Name of food
  2. Date Marking
  3. Ingredients listing
  4. Country of origin
  5. Directions for use and storage
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Define nutrition content claims

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Statements made about a nutrient, energy or biologically active substance in food

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Define Health Claims

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Can be general level or high level

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What is a food recall

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Action taken to remove from sale, distribution and consumption, foods which may pose a risk to consumers

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What are the objectives of a food recall?

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  1. Stop the distribution sale of production Asap
  2. inform: government, food business that have recieved the recalled food, public ( consumer level recall only )
  3. effectively and efficiently REMOVE unsafe product from the market place
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what does lot identification include in food labelling?

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  • identifies the packaging premises and job lot

- Coded by numbers or letters ( used for recall )

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what does the mandatory warning and advisory statements and declarations include in food labelling ?

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mandatory: Must be included on the label
Declarations: Foods that may trigger a reaction to a consumer must be declared

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What is a general Health claim?

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A relationship between the consumption of a food, or a component in the food, and a health benefit it can provide

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What is a high level health claim?

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Describes the function of a food, nutrient or other substance in relation to a serious disease or an indicator or biomarker of a serious disease

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Who developed the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points ?

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Food standards australia and New zealand ( FSANZ )

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What is the main purpose of HACCP?

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To prevent food spoilage and food poisoning and to ensure a safe food supply for consumers

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What are the 7 steps in a HACCP plan?

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  1. Analyse hazards
  2. identify the critical points
  3. set the critical limits for each critical control points
  4. monitor the critical control points
  5. establish corrective actions
  6. set up records
  7. verify that the HACCP system is working correctly
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State and territory governments throughout Australia have two key responsibilities in relation to all national food legislation, what are they?

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To implementation

and enforcement

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What are state authorities required to do?

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To ensure that the food standards developed by FSANZ are implemented by becoming law in their state

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What does the Food act of 1984 cover ?

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all food premesis that manufactures, package, transport, or sell food in the state, including restaurants and take-away food outlets

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Who is responsible for implementing the food act of 1984 ?

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The department of health and human services

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List 3 major responsibilities that the department of health and human services must include ( food safety in victoria )

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  1. develop guidelines for food safety programs
  2. Notify councils of food recalls
  3. issue ‘closing orders’
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What are local authorities responsible for?

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Monitoring and the requirements of the food act are implemented within their local area

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List 3 responsibilities of municipal councils

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  1. employment of environmental health officers
  2. registration of food business - approval of suitable safety program
  3. inspection of all food premises on a daily basis before the business can apply for re-registration
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each three levels of government has defined roles and responsibilities and must take particular so that the health and safety of our food supply is ensured. Give 3 examples

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  1. development and implementation of a food safety program
  2. responding to unsafe/ or unhygienic food production premises
  3. food product recall
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what is a food safety program?

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a document prepared by a food manufacturing company that outlines how it will manage the production of its food products so they are safely, served, manufactured or sold

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