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Date of notice: 30/07/14
Date of effect: immediate
This notice applies to export registered milk, egg and fish establishments using thermal processing for low acid canned foods in hermetically sealed containers.
Date of Issue: 22 March 2013
Date of Effect: Immediate
We regulate the export of eggs and egg products from Australia. This ensures that goods:
Regulation assures our trading partners that our goods are safe to import.
Our export laws define:
Follow these steps to export dairy products. This guide will help you comply with Australian export laws and meet importing country requirements.
If you believe that a decision made by the department is unreasonable, there is a process in place by which you can ask for a review of that decision. Read the relevant export legislation.
If you have difficulty in accessing the legislation from our website, please contact us as soon as possible and request a hard copy.
Water used in registered establishments may come from a number of sources:
The Export Control (Milk and Milk Products) Rules 2021 require that water used for processing must be potable.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry manages the registration and ongoing compliance of dairy exporters and export establishments with:
Requirements for transferring dairy, eggs and fish goods between export registered establishments.
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To ensure compliance with export eligibility requirements, exporters are able to identify registered establishments approved by the department to prepare dairy goods for export.
The lists of export registered establishment are available for download below. The lists are separated into processing establishments and storage establishments.
For any queries, please contact the Dairy, eggs and fish export program.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) guidelines for raw milk collection advise milk should be cooled on farm to 5ºC within 3.5 hours from the start of milking.
