20Testing reliability of recognised foreign government certificate or recognised quality assurance certificate

20 Testing reliability of recognised foreign government certificate or recognised quality assurance certificate

For the purposes of paragraph 16(2)(j) of the Act, the circumstances and procedures for testing the reliability of a recognised foreign government certificate, or a recognised quality assurance certificate, covering risk food of a particular kind are any one or more of the following: (a) considering whether consignments of that kind of food pass inspection or inspection and analysis; (b) auditing the system operated by the relevant instrumentality of the foreign government or the person conducting the relevant overseas food processing operation; (c) for a recognised foreign government certificate—conducting documentation checks by requiring the relevant instrumentality of the foreign government to verify certificates for food of that kind.