Food businesses resources
This page has a number of resources to help inform and update food businesses on particular food safety topics and legislative requirements. Topics include:
Food safety kits
Food safety kits are available for both food businesses and community and charity groups. Both kits also include the posters below.
The Food Safety Kit for Businesses is to assist food businesses in understanding key aspects of the mandatory Food Safety standards for all food businesses. A number of the fact sheets have been prepared by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
- Introduction (PDF 66KB)
- Receiving food safely
- Temperature control requirements
- Use of thermometers
- Food handling skills & knowledge
- Health & hygiene responsibilities of food businesses
- Health & hygiene responsibilities of food handlers
- Recall systems
- Safe Food Australia – A Guide to the Food Safety Standards
Posters
- Food Safety Fundamentals pamphlet (PDF 377KB)
- Food Safety Fundamentals poster (PDF 482KB)
- 2 Hour/4 Hour Guide fact sheet (PDF 60KB)
- Beware the Danger Zone poster (PDF 142KB)
- Don’t Cross Contaminate poster (PDF 108KB)
- Hand Washing Only poster (PDF 237KB)
- Tell Us If You Are Ill poster (PDF 109KB)
- Wash Your Hands poster (PDF149KB)
Translated posters
Food safety information
- Bring your own (BYO) containers
- Egg food safety
- Cleaning and sanitising
- Sushi safety and guideline: Sushi business food handling (PDF 1340KB)
- Risks Associated with the use of piping bags (PDF 202KB)
- Segregation and labelling of chemicals (PDF 341KB)
- Hand washing (PDF 111KB)
- Thermometers (PDF 111KB)
- Food safety in an emergency - food businesses (PDF 562KB)
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus in bivalve molluscs (PDF 321KB)
Legislative requirements
- Responsibility of food handlers with gastrointestinal illness (PDF 99KB)
- Standard 1.6.1 – New microbiological criteria for Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods (PDF 239KB)
- Date Marking and the Sale of Safe and Suitable Food (PDF 330KB)
- Misrepresentation - False Description of Seafood (PDF 472KB)
Food Safety Management Systems
There are certain high risk food business sectors that are required to implement food safety management systems (FSMS) such as audited food safety programs (FSP). The following provides information for food businesses in these sectors on food safety audits and the food safety requirements;
Primary production and processing standards
The Standards in Chapter 4 of the Food Standards Code sets out food safety and suitability requirements for certain primary production and processing. The following aims to help businesses determine if they are a primary producer or a food business. If a food business, these information sheets aim to educate and raise awareness on the requirements that must be met:
- Bivalve mollusc and seafood businesses
- Egg processor
- On-site chickens
- Vacuum packing ready-to-eat meat
Vulnerable population sector
Standard 3.3.1 of the Food Standards Code sets out food safety program requirements for businesses involved with food service to vulnerable persons. This following information is on food safety management systems that have been introduced for this sector:
- Aged care centre food safety requirements
- Childcare centre food safety requirements
- Hospital food safety requirements
Print ready resources
As we transition to digital materials, the ordering of print materials will be reduced. As of 1 October 2019, you will no longer be able to order print materials for this area. Downloadable versions of the materials will be made available on the relevant pages on the SA Health Website.
The documents below are to be downloaded and sent to a professional printer. These documents should be set up ready for print. The Printing Instructions (PDF 187KB) will help guide you to be able to print the materials in a similar way to what they are provided by SA Health.
- 2 Hour / 4 Hour Rule Explained (PDF 61KB)
- Beware the 'Danger Zone' (PDF 680KB)
- Don't cross-contaminate (PDF 1.3MB)
- Food safety fundamental
- Food Safety Passport System (PDF 9.9MB)
- Hand washing only
- Tell us if you are ill (PDF 2.9MB)
- Wash Your Hands poster (PDF 2.1MB)
Other resources
- Priority classification of food businesses
- Bug Busters Video