Welcome to Food Standards Australia New Zealand

We are a bi-national Government agency. Our main responsibility is to develop and administer the ‘Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code’  (the Code), which lists requirements for foods such as additives, food safety, labelling and GM foods. Enforcement and Interpretation of  the Code is the responsibility of State/Territory Health Departments within Australia and New Zealand.   Click here for contact details. [ continued....   ]   

 

 

     

What's New

• Media Release: The Hon Mark Butler Parliamentary Secretary for Health: Food Standards Australia New Zealand Board Appointments 2009
• Fact Sheet: Cereal-based beverages including rice and oat drinks
• Fact Sheet: Food safety during fires, floods and power cuts
• Fact Sheet: How much sodium and salt are we eating ? (May 2009)
• Media Release: Australian bakers reminded to use iodised salt from October 2009 (20 May 2009)
• Food Surveillance News - Autumn 2009
• Fact sheet: H1N1 Influenza 09 (Human Swine Influenza) and Food (May 2009)
• Food Standards News 68 - Autumn 2009
• What's new in publications
• Documents for public comment