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Governance and Legal Requirements of Fast Food Business

   

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Running head: GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS Governance and legal requirements of fast food businessName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS It might seem exciting to start a food business, to pick out the location and designingthe menu but to make the business legal there are certain requirements that needs to be keptin mind by the entrepreneurs. However, in Sydney there has been a high demand for healthyand high-quality food among the population. Fast food industry is the primary supplier offoods that are for immediate consumption. The products that this industry usually serves areburgers, pizza, chicken-based fast food, sandwiches, salads and juices, desserts andconfectioneries (Lang & Heasman, 2015). The main activities of this industry are retailing ofcooked chicken, pizza, hamburger, fish and chips, sandwich followed by serving juice bars,mobile food van, retailing sushi and ice-cream and lastly, takeaway services. This essay willdeal with the chosen topic Governance and legal requirements of fast food business. The initial step that is to taken for is proper business license from the local council.As soon as the location of the fast food center is decided, the next step would be to get thelicense for the council of that particular area. Different rules and regulations are there fordifferent locations and so the requirements for the licensing also vary. Therefore, license isneeded if the business is about serving food to the customers and so proper authority needs tobe notified. Each state and its territories in Australia have separate categorizations for foodbusinesses (Scully et al.,2012). The local governing body needs to be updated with theclassification information. However, for the licensing certain important information must beprovided about the type of food, targeted customers, packaging and most importantly, thenominated food safety supervisor. In many states in Australia, it is compulsory to have aFood Safety supervisor that is appointed on staff. This particular supervisor must haveappropriate training and certificates, which are to be registered before they can take up thework as a supervisor (Taylor et al., 2012). However, there are certain laws that must becompiled with before the fast food business is starting. The Food Standards Code is

2GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS obtainable through the Food Safety Authority Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) that iseasily available on their website. Food safety standards places an compulsion on Australian fast food business tomanufacture food that is safe as well as suitable for the customers to eat. Fast food business isinvolving food and is related to handling the sale in Australia and so safety standards aregiven highest priority. This standard also contains health and hygiene commitments for thefood handlers, which aims to decrease the occurrence of food-borne illnesses. The Healthprotection service runs the food safety in Australian Capital Territory ACT government. TheHealth Protection Service controls food businesses, generate food regulations and policiesand dispenses information that are related to food businesses and the community. However,the public health officer helps with the regulations, safety and hygiene requirements for foodbusiness along with any kind of food related complaints or concerns (Gostin,Wiley &Frieden, 2015).There are certain legal obligations that food business operators must be aware ofwhen dealing with food. There are three important laws related to food in ACT governmentand they are as follows:-Food Act 2001- According to this regulation among its various functions, this Actcontributes major definitions to food, its sell and so on. Then, it summarizesinspection and takeover powers of the sanctioned officers, allows the supplying ofadvancing notices and orders of prohibitions and describes faults related to food likeselling unsafe foods (Reynolds et al., 2015). Food regulation 2002- Under the Food Act 2001 this regulation is made. Its main andimportant function is to embrace the Australia New Zealand food standards code forutilization in the ACT. The regulation also frames the details of the essentials for

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