Food Safety Inspections

We conduct food safety inspections on retail food businesses in the Bayside LGA.

Why We Conduct Inspections

We conduct inspections to assess whether a business is complying with their food health and safety obligations.

We routinely inspect medium and high-risk food businesses. We usually inspect low risk food businesses when we receive a complaint.

  • Low risk businesses are those that sell only low risk packaged food
  • Medium risk businesses are those that sell medium and low risk food
  • High risk businesses are those that sell high risk food including cooked meals

 

What Happens During An Inspection

When we inspect your food business we assess:

  • whether you have appointed a trained Food Safety Supervisor
  • your employees' food safety skills and knowledge
  • food handling controls, including:
    • storage
    • display and transport
    • processing
    • the risk of cross-contamination
  • cleaning and sanitising, hand washing and proximity of facilities
  • food temperature control
  • pest control
  • premises design and construction, including issues such as
    • water supply
    • disposal
    • adequate and safe garbage facilities
    • lighting
  • food labelling.

 

Inspection Fees

We charge an annual inspection fee to medium and high-risk businesses.

We also charge a reinspection fee when we need to conduct a follow-up inspection.