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Licence to Process or Store Meat Products - New South Wales

Description

You will need this licence if you intend to operate a business that processes, stores or handles meat. This includes businesses such as:

  • retail meat premises
  • meat vans
  • game meat harvesters' vehicles and field chillers (for animal food or human consumption)
  • meat processing plants
  • knackeries and rendering plants
  • domestic and export abattoirs.

Please note that:

  • this includes businesses that deal in a range of different animal meat (for example: red meat, poultry, rabbit, game meat, etc) and that there are specific rules for different types of meat
  • all meat product businesses must comply with relevant parts of the Food Standards Code
  • depending on the nature of your activities you may need to have an audited Food Safety Program in place for your business.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

Please contact the agency to identify any eligibility requirements.

Duration

Annual

Expiry

12 months

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Description
Apply Application All

Fee information is listed on the attached application form.

Act(s) name

Food Act 2003 New South Wales

Regulation(s) name

Food Regulation 2015 New South Wales

Approval time

Approximately 4 weeks

Administering agency

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

Agriculture & Biosecurity

Biosecurity & Food Safety

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.

Supporting information

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