Tasmania

Local Government

Website:  http://www.lgat.tas.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=221

Contact your Local Council (ask for an Environmental Health Officer) if your inquiry relates to:

  • registrations of food businesses (both making and selling of food)
  • food safety programs, handling of food in a food business, food hygiene
  • primary food producers who sell food direct to the public, packaging, treating or substantially transforming food
  • complaints about a food or food premises
  • complaints about the sale of unsafe or unsuitable food (including contamination with foreign matter and food poisoning) .

Department of Health and Human Services – Food Unit


Phone+61 3 6222 7705 or 1800 671 738 (Free Call within Australia)

Website:  http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/health_and_wellbeing/public_and_environmental_health/related_topics/food_safety
Email: 
pophealth.foodincident@dhhs.tas.gov.au

Contact the Department of Health and Human Services if your inquiry relates to general food compliance issues (and you don’t know where to start) or publications or information on legislation:

Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment


 Phone+61 3 62338011 or 1300 368 550 (Free Call within Australia)

Website:  http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/LBUN-75U78R?open

Contact the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment if your inquiry relates to:

  • meat premises
  • egg production
  • licensing, inspection or auditing of dairy processes and dairy farms.