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Food Act 2014

Risk-based measures - Monitoring programmes

102: Monitoring programme: scope

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"What a food monitoring programme covers and how it works"

A monitoring programme is a plan that you must follow. You need to say what the programme is for. You can decide who or what the programme applies to, such as certain foods or businesses. You also need to explain how you will do the monitoring.

You have to include details about things like checking food and the environment. This can involve collecting data, taking samples, and doing tests. You must also say how you will report certain results, like if you find bad things in food.

The programme must also cover technical details and how it will actually work. This can include things like plans for regularly checking food.

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Part 2Risk-based measures
Monitoring programmes

102Monitoring programme: scope

  1. A monitoring programme must specify its purpose, and may—

  2. apply to all or any class or classes of importer, food, persons or business, process or operation, place, or area:
    1. set out how monitoring will take place:
      1. provide for matters such as surveying, monitoring, surveillance, data collection, sampling, and testing of or in relation to food and any thing in the environment:
        1. provide for reporting requirements relating to certain results (including specified contaminants or pathogens in food):
          1. provide for technical matters and specifications and matters of detail:
            1. authorise or provide for operational matters to give effect to the monitoring programme (for example, periodic sampling plans).