Safe Food Australia - A guide to the Food Safety Standards  

Last updated: 6 October 2020

Safe Food Australia is a guide to the three mandatory food safety standards:

• Standard 3.1.1 Interpretation and Application
• Standard 3.2.2 Food Safety Practices and General Requirements
• Standard 3.2.3 Food Premises and Equipment.

The guide is for government agencies who are responsible for enforcing the standards. Food businesses may also find it offers helpful information about the standards and food safety issues.

Third Edition, November 2016

You can download the complete guide for free (PDF 3.5 mb).

• Status and context of the document (PDF 40kb)
• Contents (PDF 50 kb)
• Introduction (PDF 40 kb)
• Standard 3.1.1 Interpretation and Application (PDF 90 kb)
• Standard 3.2.2 Food Safety Practices and General Requirements
  (PDF 500 kb)
• Standard 3.2.3 Food Premises and Equipment (PDF 250 kb)
• Appendix 1 - Potentially hazardous foods (PDF 60 kb)
• Appendix 2 - The use of time as a control for potenially hazardous food (PDF 230 kb)
• Appendix 3 - Limits for food processes (PDF 60 kb)
• Appendix 4 - Foods requiring special care (PDF 90 kb)
• Appendix 5 - Cooling of meats after cooking (PDF 40 kb)
• Appendix 6 - Cleaning and sanitising surfaces and utensils (PDF 140 kb)
• Appendix 7 - Pest management (PDF 40 kb)
• Appendix 8 - Template examples (PDF 80 kb)
• Appendix 9 - Temporary and mobile food premises (PDF 690 kb)
• Appendix 10 - Home-based food businesses (PDF 70 kb)
• Resources and References (PDF 140 kb)

InfoBites for food businesses

We’ve also developed some short factsheets to help you understand the food safety standards, by topic. See our InfoBites.