Part 2Risk-based measures
National programmes: National programmes
74National programme: general description
A national programme is a programme designed to identify, control, manage, and eliminate or minimise hazards or other relevant factors for the purpose of achieving safe and suitable food by—
- imposing controls on a food business in relation to matters such as (without limitation) good operating practice, documentation requirements, verification requirements, registration requirements, and traceability and recall requirements; and
- managing the relevant risks in a manner that ensures the level of control placed on food businesses in a food sector is, among other things, proportional to the level of risk that the food sector generally poses to public health.
A national programme must require every person or food business that is subject to it to comply with the applicable requirements of this Act.
A national programme may be 1 of the 3 levels specified in section 21(3)(b) and each of those levels may differ in the level of control or the set of requirements that it imposes, depending on how high or low the level is.
Accordingly, a level 3 national programme generally imposes a higher level of control on a food business than a level 2 or level 1 national programme, and a level 2 national programme generally imposes a higher level of control than a level 1 national programme.
Notes
- Section 74(1)(a): amended, on , by section 15 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).