7.2.2.2 Seafood industry
Each outbreak of food-borne illness imposes an immediate cost on industry, by reducing sales revenues for the implicated product and with follow-on effects to the seafood industry more generally37. A succession of outbreaks will repeatedly reduce industry sales revenues in the short term. In addition, small remote communities that derive a very substantial part of their income from fishing would be particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of food-borne illness. An adverse incident would have very serious implications for the economic base for these communities38.
Apart from the bivalve mollusc sector, under current regulations, only seafood businesses in the primary production sector in NSW and Victoria incur compliance costs for food safety. These costs are very small.
Under current arrangements, the bivalve mollusc sector must pay the majority of the cost incurred by their SSCA who implement and examine requirements set out by the ASQAP in their jurisdiction.
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