Taking all reasonable precautions and exercising due care to prevent a food safety breach.
It is taking all reasonable precautions and exercising due care to prevent a food safety breach, and being able to show it.
In some Australian state and territory food laws, demonstrating due diligence can form a defence, but only where the business genuinely took all reasonable precautions.
Through documented procedures, training, monitoring records, corrective actions, supplier checks and prompt, evidenced responses to problems.
Records provide the contemporaneous evidence that reasonable precautions were actually taken, rather than merely claimed.
No. The program must be genuinely followed, with records and corrective actions showing it works in practice.