9 Seafood for disposal The clause requires that seafood for disposal be returned to the supplier. Submissions pointed out that it is not possible for a fisherperson to do this (as there is no supplier) short of throwing it back into the sea.
This provision would apply where seafood is being transported prior to the wholesale part of the seafood supply chain. The Clause has been retained.
A further comment on this Clause was the questioning of the need for different terms for a label. The submitter read the Clause to imply that food had to be labelled as ‘returned’, ‘recalled’ or ‘unsafe’.
The Clause does not mean that seafood must be literally labelled as ‘returned’ etc. It is merely a requirement that the seafood be identified as this, which does not necessarily mean labelled. It is up to the business as to how the food is identified.
