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Food Act 2014

Risk-based measures - Monitoring programmes

101: Monitoring programme: general description

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"Checking if food is safe to eat through a monitoring programme"

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A monitoring programme is used to check if food is safe or suitable to eat. You use it to make sure the rules to keep food safe are working. It helps to check if the food safety rules are good enough or if they need to be improved. You use a monitoring programme in certain situations, like when food businesses do not have to follow a food control plan or a national programme. A monitoring programme can be used for any food sector, even if that sector already has to follow other food safety rules.

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Part 2Risk-based measures
Monitoring programmes

101Monitoring programme: general description

  1. A monitoring programme is used to impose, in the circumstances described in subsection (2), monitoring measures and related activities that are necessary—

  2. for determining the safety or suitability of food; or
    1. for ensuring the effectiveness of the food safety regime; or
      1. for enhancing, or determining the need for, adopted joint food standards, domestic food standards, or national outcomes; or
        1. for determining regulatory performance against the objectives of minimising and managing the food risks in respect of public health.

          1. The circumstances are as follows:

          2. the monitoring measures and related activities need to be provided for on a sector or industry basis because food businesses in the sector or industry are not generally subject to the requirement to operate under a food control plan or a national programme; or
            1. it is not feasible or practicable to provide for the monitoring measures and related activities by means of other risk-based measures.

              1. A monitoring programme may be imposed on any food sector despite the fact that the sector is already subject to a risk-based measure.