Consumers are advised to contact their Local Government, who are the enforcement agencies for the food businesses in their districts.

Infectious Disease Fact Sheets

Click on the following links for information on infectious diseases caused by eating contaminated food: 

• Botulism
• Campylobacter
• Cholera
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Gastroenteritis
• Giardia Infection
• Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome
• Listeria Infection
• Norovirus Infections
• Salmonellosis
• Shigellosis
• Typhoid and Paratyphoid

Food Poisoning

• Enteric disease investigation
• Food complaints
• Food poisoning

Food Safety

• Food recalls
• Food Safety: Eggs (PDF 215KB)
• Food safety at home
• Food Safety for Consumers (PDF 191KB)
• Safe holiday feasting
• Safe cooling of cooked rice
• Food and pregnancy
• Wild shellfish collection (PDF 177KB)
• Food prepared in residential premises

Publications

• Survey of Egg Based Sauces and Salmonella (PDF 783KB)
• Are Chicken Rolls Safe to Eat (PDF 408KB)
• Doubts About Sprouts (PDF 223KB)
• Fruit, Vegetables and Pesticide Residues (PDF 207KB)
• How Safe are Delicatessen Meats (PDF 476KB)
• How Safe are Smorgasbord Foods (PDF 421KB)
• Ice – The Cold, Hard Facts (PDF 564KB)
• Sausages, What’s the Beef (PDF 384KB)
• Undeclared Tree Nut Allergens in Foods (PDF 382KB)
• Guide to Organochlorine pesticide residues in home garden soils (PDF 744KB)

Also on this page

• Additives
• Best before and use by
• Food labelling

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Last Updated: 15 November 2011