Consultation Survey - Review of the Food Act 2006

You are invited to provide feedback on the legislative reform proposals outlined in the consultation paper. Your response can cover all proposals or just those of interest to you.

This survey relates to 39 proposals to amend the Food Act 2006. 

Please consider, and provide feedback on, the following:

  • whether you support or do not support a particular proposal, and if not supporting, the reason(s) why including expected impacts the proposal will have on you or your business or organisation
  • any other new proposals, general comments or feedback.

Fields marked with * must be completed.

Survey questions
Proposal 1: Require Queensland local governments to utilise a risk-based categorisation framework when licensing food businesses.  


200
Proposal 2: Give effect to guidelines published under the Food Standards Code.  


200
Proposal 3: Apply national standards relating to the application of food safety programs.  


200
Proposal 4: Specify the required qualifications for authorised persons.  


200
Proposal 5: Specify the required qualifications for auditors.  


200
Proposal 6: Introduce witness audits.  


200
Proposal 7: (a) Expand the list of prescribed contaminants required to be notified when isolated in food. (b) Streamline and strengthen testing and notification requirements for prescribed contaminants. (c) Clarify that the meaning of prescribed food includes ready-to-eat food.  


200
Proposal 8: Require activities exempted under section 4 of the Food Act to meet the same food safety standards as regulated food businesses.  


200
Proposal 9: Enable currently unmanaged risks to be regulated under the Food Act.  


200
Proposal 10: Ensure the manufacture of foods is a licensable activity.  


200
Proposal 11: Remove the requirement for caterers to have accredited food safety programs.  


200
Proposal 12: Ensure the regulation of commercial operations that operate in private residences.  


200
Proposal 13: Enable the regulation of products that do not comply with the Food Standards Code.  


200
Proposal 14: Introduce a standard licence condition relating to the use of raw or lightly cooked eggs.  


200
Proposal 15: Enable the use of enforceable undertakings as an alternative to prosecution.  


200
Proposal 16: Enable authorised persons to issue prohibition orders to food businesses in response to public health risks.  


200
Proposal 17: Extend the maximum term of a provisional licence to six months, except where a food safety program is required.  


200
Proposal 18: Lower the threshold for when a nonconformance audit can be conducted.  


200
Proposal 19: Clarify the powers of authorised persons to enter places.  


200
Proposal 20: Clarify the powers of authorised persons after entering a place.  


200
Proposal 21: Expand the powers of authorised persons to direct the disposal or destruction of food that may be unsafe or unsuitable or pose a significant risk to public health.  


200
Proposal 22: Expand provisions relating to tampering to include the act of moving seized items.  


200
Proposal 23: Align the timeframe for returning seized items to the statute of limitations for commencement of legal proceedings.  


200
Proposal 24: Enable temporary premises to operate across Queensland under one licence, and include them on the mobile food business register.  


200
Proposal 25: Remove taste testing as a licensable activity.  


200
Proposal 26: Enable the cancellation of a food business licence in the event of business closure or change of ownership.  


200
Proposal 27: Remove references in the Food Act to the verification of documents by statutory declaration.  


200
Proposal 28: Enable the imposing, amendment or removal of licence conditions when a food business licence is renewed.  


200
Proposal 29: Remove the requirement for a licensee’s personal address to be stated on the licence.  


200
Proposal 30: Remove the requirement for the food licence to accompany an amendment application or surrender notice.  


200
Proposal 31: Remove the requirement for food safety supervisor notifications.  


200
Proposal 32: Require food safety program accreditation applications to include the written advice of an auditor.  


200
Proposal 33: Expand the range of conditions that the chief executive of Queensland Health may impose on auditor approvals.  


200
Proposal 34: Remove the requirement for an auditor to provide oral notification regarding a conflict of interest.  


200
Proposal 35: Enable auditor approval renewal applications to be made 60 days prior to expiry of the approval.  


200
Proposal 36: Enable the restoration of an expired auditor approval within 30 days of expiry.  


200
Proposal 37: Remove the requirement for an auditor approval to accompany an application for an amendment of the approval.  


200
Proposal 38: Remove the requirement for an auditor to apply for a replacement copy of their auditor approval.  


200
Proposal 39: Remove the requirement for an authorised person to make a record noting compliance with an improvement notice.  


200
Do you have an alternative reform proposal? If so your submission must include evidence to support the proposal, expected impacts on the community, industry or regulators, and any other relevant information.  
Please provide details. To provide more information, see section 1.2 of the Consultation Paper.
4000
Do you have any other general comments or feedback?  
Please provide details. To provide more information, see section 1.2 of the Consultation Paper.
4000
Please provide your name (given name and family name)  *
500
Organisation name  
500
Email  *
500
Contact phone number  
Please provide your address including your Town, Suburb or City  *
1000
State or Territory  *
Postcode  *
What group are you part of?  *

 
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Last updated
 12 May 2023
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