Performance Benchmarking of Australian and New Zealand Business Regulation: Food Safety
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This research report was released on 22 December 2009.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 1339 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents, and Abbreviations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 232 Kb)
- Chapter 1 About the study (PDF - 227 Kb)
1.1 Origins of this study
1.2 Harmonisation of food regulation
1.3 Purpose and scope of the study
1.4 Conduct of the study
1.5 Outline of the report - Chapter 2 The regulatory objectives and framework (PDF - 243 Kb)
2.1 The broad regulatory and institutional framework
2.2 The jurisdiction-based food regulatory system
2.3 Other food safety regulation - Chapter 3 Food safety outcomes (PDF - 252 Kb)
3.1 Intermediate indicators
3.2 Food-borne illness
3.3 Outcomes and regulation - Chapter 4 Approach to benchmarking food safety regulation (PDF - 262 Kb)
4.1 Why benchmark business regulation?
4.2 Insights from international benchmarking studies
4.3 Challenges in benchmarking
4.4 Process for selecting areas of food safety regulation to benchmark
4.5 Regulatory concerns raised in submissions and during consultation
4.6 Areas of food safety regulation selected for benchmarking - Chapter 5 Consumer food safety regulation (PDF - 264 Kb)
5.1 Adoption of the Model Food Act in Australia
5.2 Differences in Australian food laws, regulations and standards
5.3 Comparisons with New Zealand food safety laws - Chapter 6 Influencing the culture of compliance (PDF - 299 Kb)
6.1 Food safety supervisors
6.2 Food safety programs - Chapter 7 Consumer food safety regulators (PDF - 384 Kb)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Role of government in food safety regulation
7.3 Methodology
7.4 Resourcing of regulators
7.5 Enforcement approaches
7.6 Enforcement practices
7.7 Transparency, accountability and coordination - Chapter 8 Regulators of primary production and processing: enforcement and accountability (PDF - 333 Kb)
8.1 Institutional structure
8.2 Methodology
8.3 Resources of primary production and processing food safety regulators
8.4 Enforcement approaches and practices
8.5 Direct burdens on business
8.6 Transparency, accountability and coordination - Chapter 9 Food safety in meat production and processing (PDF - 340 Kb)
9.1 Scope of meat regulation
9.2 Licensing, accreditation and registration of meat businesses
9.3 Inspections, audits and compliance monitoring - Chapter 10 Food safety in egg production and processing (PDF - 256 Kb)
10.1 Scope of regulation of eggs and egg product safety
10.2 Comparison of regulatory requirements across jurisdictions - Chapter 11 Food safety in dairy production and processing (PDF - 307 Kb)
11.1 Scope of dairy and dairy product safety regulation
11.2 Comparison of regulation across jurisdictions
11.3 Audits and compliance monitoring - Chapter 12 Food safety in seafood production and processing (PDF - 299 Kb)
12.1 Scope of seafood regulation
12.2 Licensing and accreditation
12.3 Compliance monitoring - Chapter 13 Maximum residue limits (PDF - 362 Kb)
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Specifying and varying the MRLs in food regulation
13.3 Business compliance with MRLs - Chapter 14 Compliance with food import and export regulations (PDF - 272 Kb)
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Issues with the administration of food import regulations
14.3 Issues with the administration of food export regulation
14.4 General organisational and procedural issues - Chapter 15 Comments from jurisdictions (PDF - 196 Kb)
- Appendix A Conduct of the benchmarking study (PDF - 1333 Kb)
- Appendix B Approach to gathering information (PDF - 303 Kb)
- Appendix C Regulation of food imports and exports (PDF - 291 Kb)
- References (PDF - 203 Kb)
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