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| Who Requires A Licence?
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|  |  | The Food Act 2006 defines a licensable food business.
A licensable food business is a food business that:
- involves the manufacture of food; or
- involves the retail sale of unpackaged food (café/restaurant, takeaway food bar) and is not a non-profit organisation; or
- is carried on by a non-profit organisation and involves the sale of meals on at least 12 days each financial year.
The following industry sectors are examples of licensable food businesses:
Food manufacturers:
- manufacturer of food products
Sale of unpackaged food by retail, including but not limited to:
- a restaurant or delicatessen
- a catering business
- a takeaway food shop, such as a pizza shop
- a motel providing meals with accommodation
- a food business that involves selling food, such as hamburgers, from a
- motor vehicle or unpackaged food from a vending machine
- private hospital
- private school tuckshop
- temporary food stalls
Non-profit organisations that sell meals on at least 12 days each financial year, including but not limited to:
- a restaurant, open daily to the public, operated by a sporting club to raise revenue for the club
- the provision of meals for a fee to homeless persons at a homeless persons’ hostel
- the preparation of meals by Meals on Wheels
The following food businesses may also be a licensable food business:
- child care centres/services
- private residential facilities
- food vans, itinerant vendors
- bed and breakfasts
- charter vessels
Food premises are any premises, including temporary structures and mobile food vehicles, where food is handled. If you are operating from a food premises, they need to be approved by Council. If you own or operate more than one premises you will need to hold a licence for each food premises.
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All food businesses which handle potentially harzardous food are required to have a probe thermometer (similar to the one pictured) in order to monitor temperatures. |
The Food Act 2006 defines a licensable food business.
A licensable food business is a food business that:
- involves the manufacture of food; or
- involves the retail sale of unpackaged food (café/restaurant, takeaway food bar) and is not a non-profit organisation; or
- is carried on by a non-profit organisation and involves the sale of meals on at least 12 days each financial year.
The following industry sectors are examples of licensable food businesses:
Food manufacturers:
- manufacturer of food products
Sale of unpackaged food by retail, including but not limited to:
- a restaurant or delicatessen
- a catering business
- a takeaway food shop, such as a pizza shop
- a motel providing meals with accommodation
- a food business that involves selling food, such as hamburgers, from a
- motor vehicle or unpackaged food from a vending machine
- private hospital
- private school tuckshop
- temporary food stalls
Non-profit organisations that sell meals on at least 12 days each financial year, including but not limited to:
- a restaurant, open daily to the public, operated by a sporting club to raise revenue for the club
- the provision of meals for a fee to homeless persons at a homeless persons’ hostel
- the preparation of meals by Meals on Wheels
The following food businesses may also be a licensable food business:
- child care centres/services
- private residential facilities
- food vans, itinerant vendors
- bed and breakfasts
- charter vessels
Food premises are any premises, including temporary structures and mobile food vehicles, where food is handled. If you are operating from a food premises, they need to be approved by Council. If you own or operate more than one premises you will need to hold a licence for each food premises.
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All food businesses which handle potentially harzardous food are required to have a probe thermometer (similar to the one pictured) in order to monitor temperatures. |
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| Who Does Not Require A Licence?
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|  |  | The Food Act 2006 exempts certain food businesses from requiring a licence. Although these operations are exempt from licensing they still need to comply with the requirements of the Food Safety Standards. A food business may apply to Council for a design assessment without applying for a licence.
Examples of food businesses which are exempt from licensing requirements include:
- the production of primary produce under an accreditation granted under the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000 - including meat, dairy, seafood and egg schemes
- the handling or sale of fisheries resources under a buyer licence issued under the Fisheries Regulation 1995, except where the seafood is cooked
- the sale of unpackaged snack food, such as biscuits, cakes, confectionary, nuts and potato chips that are not potentially hazardous food
- the sale of whole fruit or vegetables
- the sale of seeds, spices, dried or glazed fruit, dried herbs, tea leaves, coffee beans or ground coffee
- the grinding of coffee beans
- the sale of drinks (other than fruit or vegetable juice processed at the place of sale) including, for example, tea, coffee, soft drinks and alcohol
- the sale of ice, including flavoured ice, such as slurpees and snow cones or bags of party ice
- the provision of meals by a non-profit organisation that are prepared by someone other than the organisation and are stored and heated or otherwise prepared by the organisation in accordance with the directions of the meal’s manufacturer.
The Food Act 2006 exempts certain food businesses from requiring a licence. Although these operations are exempt from licensing they still need to comply with the requirements of the Food Safety Standards. A food business may apply to Council for a design assessment without applying for a licence.
Examples of food businesses which are exempt from licensing requirements include:
- the production of primary produce under an accreditation granted under the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000 - including meat, dairy, seafood and egg schemes
- the handling or sale of fisheries resources under a buyer licence issued under the Fisheries Regulation 1995, except where the seafood is cooked
- the sale of unpackaged snack food, such as biscuits, cakes, confectionary, nuts and potato chips that are not potentially hazardous food
- the sale of whole fruit or vegetables
- the sale of seeds, spices, dried or glazed fruit, dried herbs, tea leaves, coffee beans or ground coffee
- the grinding of coffee beans
- the sale of drinks (other than fruit or vegetable juice processed at the place of sale) including, for example, tea, coffee, soft drinks and alcohol
- the sale of ice, including flavoured ice, such as slurpees and snow cones or bags of party ice
- the provision of meals by a non-profit organisation that are prepared by someone other than the organisation and are stored and heated or otherwise prepared by the organisation in accordance with the directions of the meal’s manufacturer.
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| Food Safety Supervisors and Food Safety Plans
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|  |  | Food Safety Supervisors
Under the Food Act 2006, every licensable food business in Queensland will be required to have a Food Safety Supervisor by 22 February 2008. New food businesses licensed after 22 February 2008 are required to notify their Local Government within 30 days of the issue of their licence. There are penalties for not having a Food Safety Supervisor. Although the provisions of the Act commence administratively on 22 February 2008, an enforcement amnesty has been approved by the Minister for Health until 1 July 2008 to allow Queensland Health and Local Governments to establish regulatory systems and food businesses to develop their Food Safety Programs (if required) and to appoint a Food Safety Supervisor.
For additional information, including what TAFE course/s are required to be qualified as a Food Safety Supervisor, please download Food Safety Supervisors - Fact Sheet 18 (100 Kb) and Food Safety Supervisor Update - Fact Sheet 19 (220 Kb). Fact Sheet 19 should be read in conjunction with Fact Sheet 18. Both documents are prepared by Queensland Health. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Environment and Compliance on (07) 4945 0200 (Southern Office) or (07) 4761 3633 (Northern Office).
Food Safety Programs
Regulatory food safety auditors (FSAs - also named Food Safety Supervisors) will be required for the implementation of the provisions of the Food Act 2006 relating to Food Safety Programs (FSPs). The provisions of the Act commence administratively on 22 February 2008, however, an enforcement amnesty has been approved by the Minister for Health until 1 July 2008 to allow Queensland Health and Local Governments to establish regulatory systems and food businesses to develop their FSPs.
FSPs will be required for certain licensable food businesses (currently catering food businesses and private hospitals/nursing homes) and those licensable food businesses voluntarily "opt in" to have an accredited FSP.
The following links provide information on how to develop a Food Safety Program. Food Safety Supervisors
Under the Food Act 2006, every licensable food business in Queensland will be required to have a Food Safety Supervisor by 22 February 2008. New food businesses licensed after 22 February 2008 are required to notify their Local Government within 30 days of the issue of their licence. There are penalties for not having a Food Safety Supervisor. Although the provisions of the Act commence administratively on 22 February 2008, an enforcement amnesty has been approved by the Minister for Health until 1 July 2008 to allow Queensland Health and Local Governments to establish regulatory systems and food businesses to develop their Food Safety Programs (if required) and to appoint a Food Safety Supervisor.
For additional information, including what TAFE course/s are required to be qualified as a Food Safety Supervisor, please download Food Safety Supervisors - Fact Sheet 18 (100 Kb) and Food Safety Supervisor Update - Fact Sheet 19 (220 Kb). Fact Sheet 19 should be read in conjunction with Fact Sheet 18. Both documents are prepared by Queensland Health. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Environment and Compliance on (07) 4945 0200 (Southern Office) or (07) 4761 3633 (Northern Office).
Food Safety Programs
Regulatory food safety auditors (FSAs - also named Food Safety Supervisors) will be required for the implementation of the provisions of the Food Act 2006 relating to Food Safety Programs (FSPs). The provisions of the Act commence administratively on 22 February 2008, however, an enforcement amnesty has been approved by the Minister for Health until 1 July 2008 to allow Queensland Health and Local Governments to establish regulatory systems and food businesses to develop their FSPs.
FSPs will be required for certain licensable food businesses (currently catering food businesses and private hospitals/nursing homes) and those licensable food businesses voluntarily "opt in" to have an accredited FSP.
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