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Part 7 · Food Safety and Sustainable Primary Production Measures

129. Direction to manage food, regulated food contact article, etc.

(1)

The Director‑General may give a direction in subsection (2) to any person described in section 119(1) if the Director‑General —

(a)

reasonably believes —

(i)

that food or a regulated food contact article which is already the subject of a direction under section 126 is unsafe or unsuitable, or is a defined food, and further controls are required; or

(ii)

that a live food producing animal, which is already the subject of a movement control direction, is a biosecurity carrier; or

(b)

recalls food or a regulated food contact article under section 128.

(2)

The direction may be about doing or not doing all or any of the following to the food, regulated food contact article or live food producing animal:

(a)

condemning or destroying it;

(b)

disposing of or re‑exporting it;

(c)

identifying it;

(d)

processing and handling it or re-processing it;

(e)

labelling or relabelling it;

(f)

storing it;

(g)

transporting it;

(h)

examining, sampling or testing it;

(i)

advertising or selling it.

Part 8

Offences Relating to Food Safety

Part 9

Food and Health Promotion

Part 10

Misleading or Deceptive Conduct and Other Marketing Offences

Part 11

Certain Agri-Food Production Inputs

Part 12

Appeals

Part 13

Monitoring and Enforcement

Part 14

Administration

Part 15

Regulations and Codes

Part 16

Miscellaneous

Part 17

Amendments to Other Acts and Final Provisions

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