Food Act 2008 (WA) fact sheets

The following fact sheets provide guidance on topical matters related to the Food Act 2008 (WA).

Food safety

• Alcohol content and labelling requirements for non-alcoholic fermented beverages
• Assessment of businesses that manufacture food
• Exempted food businesses
• Fermented foods risk assessment guide
• Food-borne disease outbreak investigation
• Food safety management tools for environmental health practitioners
• Food safety posters and stickers
• Food allergen declarations
• Food labelling
• Food labelling for food importers
• Food prepared in residential premises
• Food recalls
• Management of temporary and mobile food businesses
• Notification of prescribed pathogens under the Food Regulations 2009 (WA)
• Play it Food Safe campaign 
• Self-service food displays

Primary production and processing

• Horticulture standards - berries, leafy vegetables and melons
• Eggs and egg products standard 4.2.5
• Pet meat
• Primary production and processing standards for eggs poultry and sprouts
• Registration of a food business
• Seeds and bean sprouts food standards
• Standard 4.2.5 Primary production and processing standard for eggs and egg product

Meat safety

• Approving equivalence of alternative techniques procedures relating to AS 4696: 2007
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Risk-based Review of Post-mortem Inspection of Kidneys of Sheep and Goats (PDF 258 KB)
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Risk-based Review of Post-mortem Inspection of Kidneys in Pigs (PDF 260 KB)
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Risk-based Review of Routine Visual Inspection of Pigs (PDF 379 KB)
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Minimal Risk Inspection for Tuberculosis in Cattle and Buffalo Inspection (PDF 257 KB)
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Risk-based Review of Post-mortem Inspection of Spleens of Sheep and Goats (PDF 244 KB)
• Australian Standard Alternative Equivalent Procedure: Risk-based Review of Post-mortem Inspection CLA of Sheep and Goats (PDF 252 KB)
• Emergency Animal Disease Plan for Domestic and Export Registered, State Regulated (Tier 1) Abattoirs and Knackeries in WA (PDF 254 KB)
• Compositional requirements and the addition of sulphur dioxide in meat and meat products

More information

Food Unit
Phone: 9222 2000
foodsafety@health.wa.gov.au