Food Standards Australia New Zealand administers the Australian New Zealand Food Standards Code.
We are a bi-national Government agency. We develop and administer the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, which lists requirements for foods such as additives, food safety, labelling and GM foods. Enforcement and interpretation of the Code is the responsibility of state and territory departments and food agencies within Australia and New Zealand.
Labelling - consumers should have the right to know which country any imported food comes from imo.
The general statement - ingredients - local and imported produce is not good enough.
There have been a lot of comments this week that consumers should buy Australian made produce, which would be OK if the supermarkets would give priority on their shelves to Australian grown, instead of priority to large quantities of their own home brand imported food instead.
The supermarkets are the ones importing more overseas produce and this means Aust growers/farmers are forced to compete with the lower priced imported produce.
Free trade agreements have something to do with this as well - Our Govt agrees to accept xx amount of produce/goods from the countries they have a FTA with.... latest ones, or near to agreements being China, Korea, Japan & India
