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.