The following information may be of interest to the Food Industry. Local Governments are the enforcement agencies for the majority of food businesses in their districts. However, as outlined in the Food Regulations 2009, the Department of Health is the enforcement agency if a food business is:

• located at a public hospital and prepares food for patients in the hospital
• a primary production business, a dairy processing business or a dairy transport business
• engaged in the primary production of seafood, or the manufacturing of seafood, it the seafood involved in the primary production or manufacturing consists of or includes bivalve molluscs
• not in a district.

The policies, procedures and forms asccociated with the above businesses can be found at Department of Health enforced food businesses webpage

• Implementation of the Food Act 2008 - Tools for Industry
• Dairy safety - Under review
• Meat safety - Under review
• Food Safety Programs - Under review
• Legislation
• Notification of Pathogens
• Temperature control
• Microbiological Guidelines for Ready-to-Eat Foods (PDF 306KB)
• Safe cooling of cooked rice
• Food recalls
• Additives
• Best before and use by
• Food labelling
• Food prepared in residential premises
• Food premises design and construction
• Western Australian Food Monitoring Program (WAFMP)

• Implementation Sub-Committee

Publications

• Cleaning and Sanitising (PDF 193KB)
• Guidelines for Exclusion from Work Due to Gastroenteritis (PDF 350KB)
• Hats and Food Handlers (PDF 188KB)
• Contact us
• Related websites

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Last Updated: 15 November 2011