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5‑4 Operational hygiene

(1) This section applies in relation to a proposed arrangement for operations to prepare prescribed milk or milk products at a registered establishment. Establishment and its equipment (2) The proposed arrangement must provide for measures in relation to the establishment and its equipment to ensure that milk and milk products at the establishment are not contaminated by environmental contamination (including airborne or waterborne contamination). Hygiene controls for processing (3) The proposed arrangement must provide for measures: (a) to protect the milk or milk products and their ingredients from contamination by any thing or activity; and (b) to minimise the growth in the milk or milk products and their ingredients of pathogens that could adversely affect the export of the milk or milk products as food that are fit for human consumption given the conditions under which they are to be stored, handled and transported; and (c) to ensure that the fitness for human consumption of the milk and milk products and their ingredients is not otherwise adversely affected. (4) Without limiting subsection (3), the proposed arrangement must provide for measures to prevent milk or milk products that are not fit for human consumption from being a source of contamination for prescribed milk or milk products or their ingredients. (5) Also without limiting subsection (3), the proposed arrangement must provide for measures to validate the effectiveness of temperature controls required under Part 2 of this Chapter. Evaluation of fitness for consumption (6) The proposed arrangement must provide for procedures to evaluate the fitness for human consumption of: (a) all milk and milk products (including returned products) received at the establishment; and (b) all ingredients received at the establishment; and (c) all milk and milk products prepared at the establishment for export as food. Requirement relating to water (7) The proposed arrangement must provide for all water (including used water, recirculated water and ice) used at the establishment to be potable unless the water is used only in circumstances (specified in the arrangement) where there is no risk of the water coming into contact with or contaminating milk or milk products. (8) The proposed arrangement must record details of the system of controls (including in relation to treatment, testing and verification) to be implemented to ensure that water used at the establishment is potable. (9) The proposed arrangement must provide for the analysis of potable water for the presence of E. coli to be performed by a laboratory accredited by NATA to perform the analysis.