If you want to sell food or any type of drinks to the public, you need to register with or, notify your principal council.
If we are your principal council, we will assist you to obtain the appropriate food registration for the type of business or operation you are running.
Our Environmental Health Officers (EHO) will assist you to understand and comply with your obligations including the Food Act and the Food Standards Code.
We can assist you if you want to:
There are levels of risk associated with all food handling and food registration.
High risk foods
If you are selling food that is high risk, such as requiring refrigeration or have any level of handling.
There are various types of food operations:
- Fixed food business, which includes operations such as restaurant, café, aged care facility, food factory, home business.
- Temporary/portable food operation – such as operating out of a marquee or setting up at an event or in a hall
- Mobile food business – such as a cart, vehicle or trailer
- Water carter
- Food vending machine
- this list is not exhaustive and if you are not sure what level of risk your food would be, please contact us and we will assist.
The way the food is prepared and the scale of production will determine the class of food registration. Some of these classifications are predetermined but our EHOs will assist businesses to finalise the registration.
Low risk foods
If you are selling low risk foods, such as packaged goods, you will simply have to notify us, as registration is no long required for Class 4 foods.
This can be done for:
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