Course Description:
Food businesses must only sell food that is safe and correctly labelled. The Australian and New Zealand joint food regulation system requires food businesses to label and advertise foods according to mandatory requirements that may differ from the EU and US systems. Foods imported to Australia are overrepresented in the food recall statistics. Of the 663 food recalls co-ordinated by the national regulator, FSANZ between 2002 and 2011, over a third were due to labelling non-compliances, including undeclared allergens. The damage to a brand and the time expended to recall all non-compliant foods from distribution due to a label omission or inaccuracy, or worse, can be significant.
The cost of non-compliance with labelling requirements therefore is more than that of compliance. If you are looking for answer of these questions, you would certainly benefit by attending this workshop:
- Are your foods in compliance with the Australian New Zealand Food Standards Code mandatory labelling requirements?
- Are your voluntary claims permitted and not misleading or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive? Are your foods falsely described and potentially at risk of government intervention?
In this two day workshop conference you will learn of the mandatory Australian and New Zealand requirements in labelling a compliant food. Through a guided review of the relevant labelling requirements prescribed in the Australian New Zealand Food Standards Code we will identify the areas of great compliance risk and the available tools and guidance materials to develop or improve the performance of your current system. Additionally, case studies will provide examples of common areas of non-compliance in labelling as identified through published enforcement activities of food and consumer regulatory bodies.
Seminar Fee Includes:
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course participants should:
- Understand the mandatory Australian and New Zealand food labelling requirements and where to locate this information for application to your foods
- Understand different categories of food have additional requirements providing marketing opportunities for some foods
- Identify and utilize government developed guidance materials to help navigate the new system for making nutrition and health claims on food (All food labels must be compliant with new Standard 1.2.7 nutrition and health claims, from 18 January 2016)
- Know how to capitalize on distinguishing intrinsic health benefits of your food and self substantiate food health relationships to make general level health claims, where permitted
Who Will Benefit:
This course is designed for people exporting foods to Australia and/or New Zealand for sale. This includes individuals that have Quality Management Systems responsibilities for making general improvements in their organization’s performance specifically related to identification, traceability and other labelling and marketing controls in food production. Following personnel will benefit from the course:
- Senior quality managers
- Quality professionals
- Regulatory professionals
- Compliance professionals
- Production supervisors
- Manufacturing engineers
- Production engineers
- Design engineers
- Process owners
- Quality engineers
- Quality auditors
- Document control specialists
Course Outline:
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Registration Process: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Session Start Time: 9:00 AM
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Meet Your Instructor
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Janine Curll Food Regulatory Consultant | PhD Candidate - Food Regulation | Academic Researcher Janine Curll BSc (Microbiology) LLB MAIFST PhD Candidate (Monash University) is principal consultant of Food Labelling Matters– a consulting practice devoted to food regulatory affairs, strategy and compliance. Janine’s professional research focus at Monash University is strategies for ‘food fraud’ control within the food labelling and regulatory system. Janine’s work is based on nearly 20 years of experience in legal and scientific research, investigation, compliance and regulatory systems. She has worked for plaintiff and defendant law firms, a state food regulator the NSW Food Authority, and universities. She is an acknowledged expert in food labelling regulations and business compliance in Australia and New Zealand and a PhD Candidate on the topic. At the NSW Food Authority Janine investigated and prosecuted serious breaches of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, including false description and labelling compliance. She was the state representation at national working groups involved in the development and implementation of new food labelling regulations and compliance and enforcement strategies, including the new nutrition and health claims standard, the food-medicine interface and imported foods compliance and enforcement. Her understanding of food and consumer regulator expectations on the information used in the sale and advertising of food can assist your business navigate the complex framework in the compliant marketing of foods for sale in Australia and New Zealand. |
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