Compliance Report of Coca-Cola Amatil Australia

This report analyses the laws and the legislations that are applicable for the compliance of Coca-Cola Amatil Australia. The report further analyses the compliance policies and programs of Coca-Cola Amatil Australia with the food safety standards outlined by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).

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Executive Summary
In this report a detailed analysis has been done based on the compliance report that is
prepared on the Assessment 1 and the interview conducted on Assessment 2.The company that
has been selected is Coca-Cola Amatil Australia. The report further analyses the laws and the
legislations that are applicable for the compliance of the company. As the company is a food and
beverage manufacturer it has to comply with the food safety standards outlined by the Food
Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).

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Table of Contents
Overview..........................................................................................................................................4
Functions, Products and Services....................................................................................................4
Compliance Requirements of the Company....................................................................................5
Actual or Possible Breaches............................................................................................................5
Solutions to the Breaches.................................................................................................................6

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Overview
In this report a detailed analysis has been done based on the compliance report that is
prepared on the Assessment 1 and the interview conducted on Assessment 2.The company that
has been selected is Coca-Cola Amatil Australia. The report further analyses the laws and the
legislations that are applicable for the compliance of the company. The report is made for the
analysis of the compliance policies and programs of Coca-Cola Amatil Australia with the food
safety standards outlined by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). Coca-Cola
Amatil is a FMGC company with the range of operations including the bottling of non-alcoholic
drinks, alcoholic drinks, water, hot beverages and food. The company is needed to be following
the compliance requirements as per the Australian Consumer Law set out in the Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission. As the company is based on Australia the company
needs to be following the legislations that provides the food and beverage safety standards such
as the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000, Food Production (Safety) Regulation 2014, Food Act
2006, Food Regulation 2006, Food Standards Code.
Functions, Products and Services
The functions of Coca-Cola Amatil include the bottling different types of beverages,
packaging different ready to eat products like fruits and snacks and delivery of the bottled and
packaged products. And the products include soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, spring
water, iced tea, flavored milk, tea, coffee, iced tea, fruit juice, ready to eat fruits and snacks and
alcoholic beverages.

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Compliance Requirements of the Company
In the assessment 1 three compliance requirements had been identified. The first
requirement is ensuring that the safety of quality of food and beverages are critical and central to
the operations of the company as per the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000 and the Food Act
2006. For any breach in the safety or quality of the foods and beverages, the company would be
liable under the Australian Consumer Law. The company is further liable to be complying with
the measurement standards mentioned in the Trade measurement section of the National
Measurement Institute for compliance information. Finally the company is required to follow the
Food Standard Codes by being aware of the specific codes for packaging and labelling.
Actual or Possible Breaches
There had been a very few reports found in which the company’s breach with the food
safety compliances had been mentioned. However in a report published by Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry in 2011 it was revealed that Coca-Cola Amatil had failed to mention
about a problem they had with their water range pumped to the NZFSA. Due to breach in safety
procedures 11 people got sick consuming the beverage.
Although there are very few breaches found but there are always chances of potential
breaches to the safety and quality of the products. Few potential breaches identified apart from
the food safety were the breach of compliance with the packaging codes and labelling and breach
with the standards and rules of measurement.

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Solutions to the Breaches
The company has many compliance programs to ensure the safety and quality of the
products. Both internal and external audits are regularly conducted by the company foe ensuring
that the requirements relating to the quality, environment and safety have been met. The
company also follows the World Health Guidelines, a separate Nutrition Guideline of the
company, both smaller and larger pack sizes of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages are
produced. Further all the ingredients used and the nutrient information related to them are made
available on the online product comparison tools of the Company. The ‘per cent’ Daily Intake
Guide label are introduced on all the products providing clear information regarding the
kilojoules present. Measuring the sugar intensity of the non-alcoholic beverages so that the total
sugar intensity could reduce by 10 per cent within the year 2020.
A few solutions that have been proposed for ensuring compliance were using recyclable
materials for the containers that are environment friendly as well as safe from contamination,
checking that the materials that are supplied to you are coming from responsible sources and
conducting regular training session of the employees to make them aware of any new food safety
regime.
Conclusion
Thus in conclusion from the above analysis it can be seen that Coca-Cola Amatil is a
FMGC company based in Australia, that is bound by the requirements of the Food Standards
Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The company is further needed to be following the compliance
requirements of the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000, Food Production (Safety) Regulation

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2014, Food Act 2006, Food Regulation 2006 and Food Standards Code. The breach of any of the
compliance requirement by the company would be leading to the breach of Australian Consumer
Law. In this report the actual and possible breaches of the company and their solutions have also
been discussed.

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Reference
Australian Consumer Law
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Food Production (Safety) Act 2000
Food Production (Safety) Regulation 2014
Food Act 2006
Food Regulation 2006
Food Standards Code
National Measurement Institute for compliance information