What are the legal consequences for the business and the individual for disregarding food safety guidelines in a food premises NSW?

(1)  In the meat food safety scheme:

abattoir means premises used for or in connection with the slaughtering of abattoir animals for human consumption, and includes:

(a)  buildings used in connection with the slaughtering, handling, drafting or keeping of abattoir animals for human consumption at any premises so used, and

(b)  holding yards and the like.

abattoir animal means any of the following animals that is not a game animal:

(a)  any animal of the bovine, bubaline, camelidae, caprinae, cervidae, ovine, porcine or soliped species,

abattoir meat means meat that is from an abattoir animal and that is intended for human consumption.

animal means an abattoir animal, game animal or knackery animal.

animal food means food intended for consumption by animals.

animal food field depot means premises where any unflayed carcases of game animals intended for use as animal food is stored but not packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up.

animal food field harvesting van means any vehicle in which unflayed carcases of game animals intended for use as animal food are conveyed from the point of harvest to an animal food field depot.

animal food processing plant means any premises where:

(a)  in the course of a business (being a business of preparing or selling animal food), meat or fish or any product of meat or fish is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or

(b)  in the course of a business, processed animal food is produced,

but does not include:

(c)  an abattoir, knackery, meat processing plant, game meat primary processing plant or animal food field depot, or

(d)  meat retail premises or any other retail premises.

animal food van means any vehicle used for the conveyance of meat intended for use as animal food, but does not include an animal food field harvesting van.

bird includes ratite.

game animal means any vertebrate animal, including a mammal, bird or reptile (but not including a fish) that:

(a)  is not husbanded in the manner of a farmed animal, and

(b)  is of a species that may be legally harvested, and

(c)  is slaughtered in a wild state.

game meat means meat that is from a game animal and that is intended for human consumption.

game meat field depot means premises where any unflayed carcases of game animals intended for human consumption are stored but not packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up.

game meat field harvesting van means a vehicle in which unflayed carcases of game animals intended for human consumption are conveyed from the point of harvest to a game meat field depot.

game meat primary processing plant means any premises where, in the course of a business, unflayed carcases of game animals are received from the field or a game meat field depot and are flayed, whether or not the carcases are further treated, boned or cut up on those premises.

hogget means an ovine animal that has at least one permanent incisor tooth, but no more than 2 permanent incisor teeth, in wear.

in wear, in relation to a permanent incisor tooth of an ovine animal, means that the tooth can touch the pad of the upper jaw when the mouth of the animal is closed.

knackery means premises used for or in connection with the slaughtering of knackery animals for use as animal food, or for or in connection with the destruction of knackery animals for the making of animal by-products that are used in animal food, and includes:

(a)  buildings used in or in connection with the slaughtering, destruction, handling, drafting or keeping of any such animals at any premises so used, and

(b)  holding yards and the like.

knackery animal means horse, donkey, camel, kangaroo, buffalo, deer, bull, ox, steer, cow, heifer, calf, ram, ewe, wether, hogget, lamb, goat, kid, swine, rabbit or bird.

lamb means an ovine animal that:

(a)  is under 12 months of age, or

(b)  does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear.

licensed premises means premises in respect of which a licence authorising the carrying on of a meat business is in force.

meat means the whole or any part of the carcase of an animal, but does not include processed meat or processed animal food.

meat business—see clause 79.

meat processing plant means any premises where, in the course of a business:

(a)  abattoir meat is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or

(b)  processed meat is produced from abattoir meat or is further processed,

(c)  game meat from carcases that have been flayed at other premises is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or

(d)  processed meat is produced from game meat from carcases that have been flayed at other premises or is further processed,

but does not include:

(f)  meat retail premises or any other retail premises, or

(g)  a game meat field depot, or

(h)  a game meat primary processing plant.

meat retail premises means premises where meat is sold by retail and on which raw meat carcases or parts of raw meat carcases are processed in some way (such as boning, slicing or cutting) or on which processed meat is produced or further processed, not being premises:

(a)  where in any week during the preceding calendar year, more than one tonne of meat, one tonne of processed meat or one tonne of any combination of meat or processed meat was sold by wholesale, or

(b)  where all the meat sold is:

(i)  in a form ready to be consumed (such as is sold at a restaurant or take-away food shop), or

(ii)  in a form commonly referred to as cook and chill (that is, cooked packaged meat that requires reheating before consumption).

meat safety inspector means:

(a)  in relation to an abattoir, the meat safety inspector appointed for the abattoir in accordance with clause 113, or

(b)  in relation to a game meat primary processing plant, the meat safety inspector appointed for the processing plant in accordance with clause 113.

meat van means any vehicle used for the conveyance of abattoir meat or game meat, but does not include a game meat field harvesting van.

poultry means chickens, turkeys, ducks, squab (pigeons), geese, pheasants, quails, guinea fowls, muttonbirds or any other avian species (except ratites).

poultry farm means any land or premises where birds (being poultry for human consumption) are grown but only if more than 100 such birds are being grown at any time.

processed animal food means any product of a manufacturing process that contains meat that is intended for use as animal food.

processed meat means a meat product intended for human consumption that contains not less than 300 grams per kilogram of meat, where the meat has undergone a method of processing other than boning, slicing, dicing, mincing or freezing, and includes cured or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces.

rendering plant means any premises where animal by-products are rendered or boiled down, but does not include an abattoir or a knackery.

unflayed carcase of an animal means the carcase of the animal with the skin or outer covering still attached.

cl 76: Am 2019 (284), cl 3.