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A438 DAR Exec Summary
A438 DAR Exec Summary 9 October 2002 DRAFT ASSESSMENT REPORT Page last updated: 13 February 2025
Published 23 March 2013
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A438_gamma_cyclodextrin_FAR_ExecSum Page last updated: 13 February 2025
Published 23 March 2013
Health and hygiene of personnel and visitors
Health and hygiene of personnel and visitors You need to make sure all personnel and visitors follow good personal hygiene and health practices to keep your produce safe. Personnel (staff and contractors) and visitors can contaminate produce with harmful microorganisms, chemicals, or foreign matter from their hands, body, clothes or equipment. To reduce this risk, your business should set good personal health and hygiene practices and make sure they are followed. What are good health and hygiene practices? Good practices include: Washing hands before handling food, and after toilet and lunch breaks, or any other time hands may have become dirty. Avoiding sneezing, coughing, etc on food. Not attending work/ handling food while sick with gastro or…
Published 1 October 2025
Allergen labelling for consumers
Allergen labelling for consumers Some foods and ingredients can cause allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, immune reactions such as in Coeliac disease, and other adverse health reactions such as asthma. From 25 February 2024, food businesses are required to meet new plain English allergen labelling requirements for how certain foods known to be common allergens are declared. These changes will mean food allergen information is clearer and easier to find on food labels. If a food was packaged and labelled before the 25 February 2024, and it does not declare allergens in the new required format, then it can still be sold for another two years (until 25 February 2026). Allergen labelling still applies to food packaged and labelled before…
Published 12 October 2022
Inorganic arsenic and iodine in seaweed
Inorganic arsenic and iodine in seaweed Arsenic In 2013 FSANZ released a survey on the levels of inorganic arsenic in a range of seaweed types and products containing seaweed, available in Australia. The levels in most seaweed tested were below the regulatory limit for inorganic arsenic, with the exception of one hijiki seaweed sample. Because this sample was made up of two individual samples of the same brand of hijiki it may not be representative of all hijiki seaweed available for sale in…
Published 25 July 2019
Growing sites
Growing sites If you’re a grower of leafy vegetables or melons, you need to make sure the site you use to grow your produce does not make the food unsafe to eat. What is a growing site? A growing site is any site used to grow fresh produce. This includes open areas or fields, as well as partially or fully enclosed planting areas such as greenhouses and hydroponic facilities. What are the requirements? Primary producers of leafy vegetables and melons must do what they reasonably can to make sure their growing site does not make produce unacceptable to eat, from contamination with harmful bacteria, chemicals or physical hazards. This means you need to know about your growing site, what it was used for previously, what is happening nearby and what other potential sources of contamination…
Published 1 October 2025
Pregnancy and healthy eating
Pregnancy and healthy eating A healthy diet is important for pregnant women and their developing baby. It's best to start eating well before you become pregnant. If you think you might be pregnant already, don't worry—start following advice as soon as you can. During pregnancy, more of certain nutrients, such as iron, iodine and folic acid are needed, but only a small amount of extra kilojoules. Normal weight gain over the course of a pregnancy is around 11.5–16.0 kg for women who are a healthy pre-conception weight. What to eat It is important to choose a wide variety of nutritious foods. Lots of well-washed fruit and vegetables, wholegrain breads and cereals Dark green leafy vegetables naturally contain iron and…
Published 3 November 2023
A432 DAR Exec Summary
A432 DAR Exec Summary 9 October 2002 DRAFT ASSESSMENT REPORT Page last updated: 13 February 2025
Published 23 March 2013
A446 Draft Assessment Exec Summary
A446 Draft Assessment Exec Summary 18 December 2002 Page last updated: 13 February 2025
Published 23 March 2013
Nanoparticles and infant formula
Nanoparticles and infant formula Nanoscale materials are not new. Food is naturally composed of nanoscale sugars, amino acids, peptides and proteins, many of which form organised, functional nanostructures. For example, proteins are in the nanoscale size range and milk contains an emulsion of nanoscale fat droplets. Humans, including infants, have consumed these particles in foods throughout history without evidence of adverse health effects related to the materials nanoscale size. January 2018 The issue In recent years there have been several media reports about the presence of nanoparticles in infant formula. Most of these reports have focused on…
Published 3 August 2018