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Essential food safety practices fact sheets

General Fact Sheets -     

(Updated June 2007)

Food Safety Standards for Australia   [ html    ]

Standard 3.1.1 - Interpretation and Application   [ html ]

Standard 3.2.1 - Food Safety Programs -  html 

Standard 3.2.2 - Food Safety Practices and General Requirements  [ html  ]

Standard 3.2.3 - Food Premises and Equipment  [ html ]

Technical Fact Sheets

Food handling skills and knowledge  [ html | pdf 65kb]

Food business notification requirement  [ html | pdf 64kb]

Health and hygiene: Responsibilites of food handlers  [ html | pdf 68kb]

Health and hygiene: Responsibilities of food businesses [ html | pdf 67kb]

Receiving food safely  [ html | pdf 67kb]

Food recall systems for unsafe foods  [ html | pdf 67kb]

Thermometers and using them with potentially hazardous food [ html | pdf 68kb]

Temperature control requirements   [ html | pdf 66kb]

Translated Techncial Fact Sheets

The Food Safety Techncial Fact Sheets are available on the website only in the following languages: Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Indonesian, Macedonian, Serbian, Spanish, Filipino/Tagalog, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese .  These were produced in May 2001.

An introduction to new Food Safety Standards   [ html | pdf 142kb ]

Notification   [  html | pdf 54kb ]

Skills and knowledge   [  html | pdf 61kb ]

Labelling   [ html  | pdf 75kb ]  - This fact sheet will be replaced with an updated version upon completion of the assessment process for
Proposal P272 – Labelling Requirements for Food for Catering Purposes and Retail Sale

Temperature control   [ html | pdf 67kb ]

Sausage sizzles and barbecues   [ html | pdf 60kb ]

Preparing and cooking food   [  html | pdf 69kb ]

Transporting food   [ html | pdf 60kb ]

Camping   [ html | pdf 65kb ]

Health and hygiene for food handlers   [ html | pdf 69kb ]

Cool and reheat food safely - to the right temperatures       [ pdf 166 kb ]

Store, display and transport food at the right temperature   [ pdf 249 kb ]