Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Standard 4.2.1 - Primary Production and Processing Standard for Seafood (Australia Only)
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Purpose and commentary
This Standard sets out food safety and suitability requirements for seafood generally from pre-harvesting production of the seafood up to, but not including manufacturing operations. Chapter 3 of this Code applies to seafood manufacturing and retail sale activities.
Under this Standard, a seafood business must identify potential seafood safety hazards and implement controls that are commensurate with the risk.
Additionally, this Standard requires primary producers and processors of certain bivalve molluscs to implement a food safety management system. This particular requirement also extends to manufacturing activities relating to bivalve molluscs.
For primary producers and processors of bivalve molluscs, the food safety management system incorporates conditions on the areas from which the product may be harvested or harvested for depuration or relaying, along with conditions on the water used for wet storage.
Table of Provisions
Division 1 – Preliminary
1 Application
2 Interpretation
Division 2 – General seafood safety requirements
3 General seafood safety management
4 Contamination and handling
5 Inputs and harvesting areas
6 Seafood storage
7 Seafood transportation
8 Seafood packaging
9 Seafood for disposal
10 Seafood receipt
11 Seafood tracing
12 Skills and knowledge
13 Health and hygiene requirements
14 Seafood premises and equipment
Division 3 – Harvesting and other requirements for bivalve molluscs
15 Interpretation
16 Food safety management systems for bivalve molluscs
17 Co-mingling of bivalve molluscs
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