Dar seafood ppp standard

Fish Names

Believes that a mandatory fish names list will meet all three of the FSANZ objectives:

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  The protection of public health and safety
  
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  The provision of adequate information relating to food to enable consumers to make informed choices
  
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  The prevention of misleading and deceptive conduct
  

Believes that members of the seafood industry at all levels of the supply chain should be required to label fish correctly.
Acknowledges that a primary production and processing standard may not be the only place to incorporate a mandatory fish names list. Believes that a mandatory fish names list has a place in the Food Standards Code. Disappointed that FSANZ has decided not to address the issue.
Prepared to accept the compromise position of the development of the Australian Standard for fish names through the Standards Australia process. Notes that at the last SDC meeting, FSANZ gave an undertaking to revisit the issue in the future once the AS had been developed and implemented.

Peter Clarke Australian Freshwater Crayfish Association Yabby Growers of Victoria

Expresses grave concerns over the regulatory impact of the Victorian government’s implementation of the Seafood Safety Act 2003 and the enforcement of this Act through Primesafe and this dept’s subsequent adoption of the FSANZ Primary Production and Processing Standard for Seafood. Not the view of the stakeholders in the Yabby industry to undermine nor underestimate the importance of food safety throughout the food production chain. It is the regulatory impact and associated costs of the enforcement of the food safety laws that threaten the potential of the yabby growing industry.