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 enquiry 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, undeclared food allergens and food poisoning).
Department of Health and Human Services – Food Safety
1800 671 738 (Free Call within Australia)
Website: www.dhhs.tas.gov.au
Email: public.health@dhhs.tas.gov.au
Contact the Department of Health and Human Services if your enquiry 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
+61 3 62338011 or 1300 368 550 (Free Call within Australia)
Website: www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/LBUN-75U78R?open
Contact the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment if your enquiry relates to:
- meat premises
- egg production
- licensing, inspection or auditing of dairy processes and dairy farms.
Tasmanian Dairy Industry Authority
+61
3 6478 4100
Contact the Authority regarding licensing and enforcement of the Food Standards Code for the dairy industry in Tasmania.
