New South Wales Food Authority
| NSW Food Authority | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 5 April, 2004 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Operations jurisdiction* | State of New South Wales, Australia |
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction. |
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| Headquarters |
Newington, NSW 33°50′01″S 151°03′18″E / 33.83363°S 151.055022°E |
| Agency executive | Dr Lisa Szabo, Chief Executive Officer |
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www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au facebook/nswfoodauthority twitter//NSWFoodAuth |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
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New South Wales Food Authority (NSW Food Authority) is an Australian government statutory authority, responsible for food safety and food labelling regulations in the state as well as consumer food safety promotion. It is part of the executive arm of the Government of New South Wales, within the portfolio of the Minister for Primary Industries, and is part of the NSW Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development cluster of agencies under the DPI Biosecurity and Food Safety Branch.
The authority was established in April 2004 with the amalgamation of SafeFood Production NSW and the food inspection activities of the Department of Health (being the former Food Branch and the food inspection staff of the Area Health Services). SafeFood Production NSW was itself the product of a series of amalgamations of industry-specific organisations. NSW is the first Australian state to consolidate such a wide range of food safety and food labelling functions into a single, central government agency.
The authority enforces the Food Act 2003 (NSW) and associated regulations within New South Wales in respect of all food for sale. The act brings the bi-national Food Standards Code maintained by Food Standards Australia New Zealand into force within the state. The authority designs and monitors food safety schemes under the Food Regulation 2015 for higher risk industry sectors in the state, licenses food businesses under those schemes, receives notifications for non-retail food businesses, investigates food hygiene and labelling complaints for businesses it monitors, coordinates recalls of food products by companies in the state, coordinates the state's input to national food standards policy and implementation, and advises the NSW Minister for Primary Industries on food standards.
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