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Last updated: 24 March 2023
To make a submission or ask about submissions email submissions@foodstandards.gov.au
Email the Submissions mailbox.
Submissions must be in writing and should be sent electronically where possible. All submissions must be received by the due date. Any extensions to the due date this will be detailed above.
If you have any trouble lodging your submission online or your submission contains confidential material email it to the Submissions mailbox.
Your submission should:
If possible, submissions should contain scientific evidence rather than conjecture to back up assertions. If no scientific or other validated evidence is provided, we will still have regard to those comments, but may not be able to give them the same weight as information supported by scientific evidence.
Some submitters raise concerns about matters that FSANZ doesn’t have responsibility for, for example enforcement, compliance or food policy. These issues should be raised with the relevant agencies. If in doubt, email the Standards Management mailbox for clarification.
Find out more about who does what in the food regulation system.
Your submission should be acknowledged within three business days.
Under the Information Publication Scheme, your submission will be published on our website unless you provide appropriate reasons to treat it as confidential. Submissions will be published as soon as possible after the end of the public comment period. Details such as direct phone numbers, personal email addresses or addresses of private individuals are redacted from documents before publication.
Under our legislation, we are required to treat information as confidential if it identifies trade secrets relating to food and any other information relating to food, the commercial value of which would be or could reasonably be expected to be destroyed or diminished by disclosure. Confidential commercial information should be clearly identified and separated from your submission. If FSANZ does not agree that the information meets the criteria for confidential information, you will be given an opportunity to withdraw the submission before it is made public.
You may want to keep only parts of your submission confidential. If this is the case, this should be indicated in your submission.
All relevant issues raised in submissions will be considered by FSANZ. Subsequent reports will address these issues.
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