Food safety and quality in the food industry

Running head: FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY OF AUSTRALIAN MARKET
FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY OF AUSTRALIAN MARKET
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Introduction
The Australian food market faces many quality issues in terms of safety in
conformance to product labelling standards. The food industry requires high monitoring and
customer rights. In this paper, the quality and safety aspect of the food market is focused on
mainly. The paper discusses the food quality and safety framework of the Australian food
market concerning CSIRO policies. It discusses the challenges faced by the market in terms
of food quality and how the value systems can be used by CSIRO to maintain sustainable
operations in the industry.
Discussion
Basic overview of Australian Food Market
The food industry is the largest sector of Australia with more than 50% of citizens employed
in the food industry. The Australian government department of food agencies with Food
Standards Australia New Zealand helps in ensuring the country’s food regulation processes in
order to protect the standard public health. The retail food chain of the industry operates on a
massive scale across the regions. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO) which is the largest national science department agency looking over
the security and quality management along with operational monitoring of the food industry
(Blakeney 2016). The Australian Consumer Law oversees the food operations with legal
rights to prohibit the deceptive and faulty practices that can cause harm to customers in terms
of health. The quality standards in the industry are also measured by the origins of
transportation along the supply chain of food delivery within distribution channels. The
labelling requirements in particular food like the meat of chicken, cows and pigs require
labelling standards.

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CS1RO Framework of Australian Food Market
CSIRO uses the following principles to maintain food quality and safety standards :
a. In order to monitor formulation and process condition changes, it conducts laboratory
investigations in physical contamination of food.
b. Monitor the microbial percentage for sterilisation and the electric high-pressure
processing types of equipment.
c. All the imported food products manufactured undergo verification of contamination in
physical and chemical terms.
d. Investigation of the bacterial and fungal contamination along with the food product
durability are checked (CSIRO).
e. The expertise of food technologists are scrutinized.