Food Hygiene Inspections

The Greens are calling for urgent action to protect NSW restaurant customers from food poisoning.

Salmonella is booming and changes to the way restaurant operators are regulated and to hygiene monitoring and compliance are needed.

The state government must provide councils and other food inspection authorities with the resources to inspect all restaurants on a regular basis and the powers to prosecute those that infringe the basic standards. It is time to publish the results of food inspections.

For details of better inspection and reporting practice in other countries, click here.

Testing of Imported Food

The US Food and Drug Administration revealed that some Chinese farm-raised seafood including prawns contained dangerous and banned antibiotics such as nitrofurans and malachite green. While the US tests every batch of imported Chinese farm-raised seafood, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) tests just one in twenty batches.

The Greens want NSW Ministers who are on the Ministerial Council that sets food safety policy for FSANZ to make sure that comprehensive testing is implemented to protect consumers.

Media:

• For all John's media releases about safe foods, click here