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Safe Food Delivery Guidelines

This document outlines requirements for food businesses receiving deliveries to ensure food is safe. It states that food must be delivered from a known supplier, protected from contamination, and at a safe temperature. For potentially hazardous foods, specific temperature requirements apply such as frozen foods being delivered frozen hard, chilled foods at 5°C or colder, and hot foods at 60°C or hotter. Food businesses should take steps to properly identify, inspect, and maintain food temperatures upon receipt.

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Safe Food Delivery Guidelines

This document outlines requirements for food businesses receiving deliveries to ensure food is safe. It states that food must be delivered from a known supplier, protected from contamination, and at a safe temperature. For potentially hazardous foods, specific temperature requirements apply such as frozen foods being delivered frozen hard, chilled foods at 5°C or colder, and hot foods at 60°C or hotter. Food businesses should take steps to properly identify, inspect, and maintain food temperatures upon receipt.

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Receiving food

If you’re a food business, it’s important to only accept delivery


of food you are sure is safe and suitable. SAFE FOOD AUSTRALIA
InfoBite

What are the requirements? Potentially hazardous food


Under Standard 3.2.2 - Food Safety Practices and • Formally agree with your delivery business what
General Requirements, food businesses must do temperature food will be delivered at, or a safe
everything they can to make sure they only receive time period.
food that is safe and suitable. • Check frozen food is delivered frozen hard.
This generally means the food is delivered: • Check chilled food is delivered at 5°C or colder.
• from a known supplier • Check hot food is delivered at 60°C or hotter.

• protected from contamination, and • If you have agreed to accept food between 5oC
and 60oC, check the delivery has not taken longer
• at a safe temperature.
than the agreed time (check departure and
arrival times).
• Keep food under temperature control once you
Reduce your risk have received it.
• make sure you can identify all food that is
delivered and you know the supplier’s name
and address Need more information?
• ask your suppliers to protect food from Safe Food Australia is a guide to the food safety
contamination (e.g. in food-safe packaging) standards in Chapter 3 of the Food Standards Code.
• make sure someone is on-site to inspect Food receipt is under Standard 3.2.2 clause 5 and
potentially hazardous food is explained in Appendix
food as it is delivered
1 and 2.
• check delivered food is properly covered or
packaged Copies of the guide, some translated fact sheets
• check there is no mould, insects, droppings and other information is available at
or foreign objects (like glass or metal) in the www.foodstandards.gov.au/safefood or by
food emailing [email protected].
• check the ‘Use by’ date of items has not
passed
• if the food is potentially hazardous, check it
is delivered at the correct temperature.

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