Food safety programs

The Food Act 2005 requires some licensable food businesses to have an accredited Food Safety Program. This is to identify, document and control food safety hazards within a business.

Licensable food businesses must have an accredited food safety program if:

  • the food business involves off-site catering, e.g. provides catering at events
  • the main activity of the food business is on-site catering
  • the main activity of the food business is on-site catering at part of the premises where they are catering to 200 or more people on 12 or more occasions in any 12 month period, e.g. convention centre
  • the food business is part of the operations of a private hospital or processes or serves potentially hazardous food to six or more vulnerable people, e.g. nursing home, childcare facility.

 

Food Business Licence application guide

Develop a food safety program | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au)

Register of approved auditors - Food safety auditing | Publications | Queensland Government

Food safety program accreditation and amendment form.

 

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