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  • Food
    • How to import food
      • Food Import Compliance Agreements
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    • Import requirements by food type
      • Importing food from New Zealand
      • Pure and highly concentrated caffeine products
      • Cereal grains and cereal products
      • Coconut and coconut meat
      • Coconut milk drinks
      • Cheese
      • Dried milk
      • Raw milk cheese
      • Fruits and vegetables
      • Berries
      • Pomegranate arils
      • Hemp seeds and oil
      • Dried herbs
      • Paprika and pepper
      • Honey
      • Human milk and human milk products
      • Powdered infant formula
      • Kava
      • Beef and beef products
      • Processed meat - cooked
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Import requirements by food type

We monitor and test food imported into Australia under our Imported Food Inspection Scheme. This ensures all imports comply with Australian food standards and requirements for safety.

The tests we apply depend on the food type and whether the food is a risk or surveillance food.

If food referred for an inspection doesn’t need to be tested, we will still perform a visual and label assessment.

Most food imports from New Zealand aren’t referred for inspection or testing because we:

  • recognise that our food regulatory systems are similar
  • have joint food standards.

Any food able to be sold in New Zealand can also be sold in Australia.

Check what requirements may apply to these food imports.

Pure and highly concentrated caffeine products

Cereal grains, flours and processed cereals

Coconut – fresh, chilled, frozen, dried or desiccated (whether whole, flaked, chipped, shredded or ground)

Coconut milk drinks

Cheese

Dried milk

Raw milk cheese

All fruit and vegetables, including:

  • fresh, chilled, frozen or dried fruit
  • legumes - fresh or chilled, frozen or dried
  • vegetables - fresh or chilled, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling, frozen

Berries that are ready-to-eat

Pomegranate arils that are ready-to-eat

Hemp seed, hemp seed powder/flour, hemp oil

Herbs - dried (excluding garlic flakes/granules)

Paprika, dried pepper, dried capsicum and dried chilli

Honey

Human milk and human milk products

Powdered infant formula

Kava

Beef and beef products (including food that contains beef or beef products as an ingredient)

Cooked meat – manufactured or processed that is ready-to-eat

Meat and edible offal – fresh, chilled or frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked

Poultry meat that is cooked

Poultry pâté, poultry paste and poultry liver that is cooked

Raw beef and beef products

Uncooked meat – manufactured or processed that is ready-to-eat

Uncooked slow dry cured ready-to-eat ham

Peanuts and pistachios (including peanut and pistachio products)

Sesame seeds and sesame seed products

Edible plant oils

Cassava chips or crackers that are ready-to-eat

Tofu, soy-bean curd, soy milk curd

Mini jelly cups containing konjac

Prohibited plants and fungi

Bivalve molluscs and bivalve mollusc products

Cooked crustaceans

Fish and crustaceans from aquaculture production

Histamine susceptible fish

Processed finfish

Brown seaweed

Supplementary sports food

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