New national food safety standards – stakeholder toolkit
On 8 December 2022, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) introduced the new Food Safety Standard 3.2.2A. This new standard relates to food premises that sell unpackaged, potentially hazardous ready-to-eat foods. This standard introduces 3 food safety management tools for food service, caterers and some retail food businesses.
Download the Food safety management tools – Food Safety Standard 3.2.2A stakeholder toolkit (PDF 1.5MB) to promote the new standard requirements and implementation date to food businesses. This toolkit includes graphics and promotional text for you to share.
Objectives
- Raise awareness about the new national requirement to comply with Standard 3.2.2A. by 8 December 2023.
- Encourage food businesses to complete the relevant requirements for their food business to meet the new standard.
Key messages
- New standards are being introduced across Australia by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to improve food safety and prevent food-borne illness.
- Poor food handling can cause outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, which can result in avoidable hospitalisations, loss of revenue and reputational damage to food businesses.
- Some food businesses will be required to implement food safety management tools. These will enable food businesses to manage food safety risks more effectively to help prevent foodborne illnesses and outbreaks, loss of revenue and reputational damage.
- Food businesses that handle unpackaged, potentially hazardous and/or ready-to-eat foods will need to comply with the new standard requirements by 8 December 2023.
- For more information visit health.wa.gov.au/FSMT or contact your local government Environmental Health Services.
Target audience
- Food businesses that prepare unpackaged, potentially hazardous and ready-to-eat foods.
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Social media tiles
Newsletter banners
Banners are available for download to use in your print and electronic newsletters.
If used in an e-newsletter please hyperlink banners to health.wa.gov.au/FSMT
You can use the approved news article text and social media posts available in the stakeholder toolkit to accompany the graphics below.
PowerPoint presentation template (local government only)
This template is available for presentations to your local food businesses upon request.
To be used for presentations, this template must be co-badged.
Contact the Communications Directorate at communications@health.wa.gov.au for more details.
Email signature
Use the email signature (JPG 126KB) to remind food businesses about the new food safety standard and implementation date.
Supporting resources
Infographic
Download or print the Food Safety Standard 3.2.2A infographic (500KB PDF).
Fact sheet
Download or print the two-page Food safety management tools fact sheet (2MB PDF).
Guideline
Download or print the Food safety management tools – Guide for food businesses on Food Safety Standard 3.2.2A (3MB PDF)
Contact us
This stakeholder toolkit is coordinated by the Environmental Health Directorate in conjunction with the Communications Directorate.
Email: communications@health.wa.gov.au
Last reviewed: 13-06-2023