Queensland Consolidated Acts

FOOD ACT 2006 - SECT 271

271 Chief executive may give direction

(1) This section applies if, in relation to a food business, a person notifies the chief executive under section 270 (2) that a prescribed contaminant has been isolated in food (the
"contaminated food" ).

(2) The chief executive may give the person who carries on the food business a reasonable direction about identifying the source of, and preventing or minimising the risk to public health or safety caused by, the prescribed contaminant.

(3) The direction may be given orally or by notice.

(4) If the direction is given orally, the chief executive must as soon as practicable confirm the direction by notice.

(5) Without limiting subsection (1) , a direction may be about—

(a) the handling of—

(i) the contaminated food; or

(ii) food that may have been handled with or near the contaminated food, or at a place or using equipment that may have come into contact with the contaminated food; or

(b) the isolation or disposal of food mentioned in paragraph (a) ; or

(c) procedures to be performed to complete identification of the prescribed contaminant.

(6) A person who is given a direction under subsection (2) must comply with the direction, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Note—

If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, each executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 260A , to have also committed the offence.