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Food Act 2014

Tracing, recall, and verification - Tracing and recall

133B: Tracing and recall

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"Following rules to track and remove unsafe food"

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If you are a person this law applies to, you must follow the regulations made under section 133C and any notice under section 405. You have to put in place procedures for tracing food and recalling food. You also have to test these procedures and use them to trace and recall food when needed.

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Tracing and recall

133BTracing and recall

  1. A person to whom this subpart applies must, in accordance with any regulations made under section 133C and any notice under section 405,—

  2. have in place procedures for—
    1. tracing food; and
      1. recalling food; and
      2. conduct simulations or other tests of those procedures; and
        1. implement those procedures to trace and recall food.

          Notes
          • Section 133B: inserted, on , by section 23 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).