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Berry Recipes and Your Healthy Lifestyle! Choose delicious Bremner's Frozen Berries Bremner's, your local farmer and producer of Berry Recipes Bremner's hired a chef to create delicious Berry recipes. Berry BenefitsBremner’s blueberries, cranberries and other berries, are nature’s perfect super-delicious super-food. They are nutrient-dense and rich in antioxidants. Pure, simple and powerful. Bremner's Race TeamBremner's believes in living an active healthy lifestyle and we "practice what we preach" so to speak. Eat healthy and stay active, feed your mind, body and soul! All biosecurity requirements must be met before Imported Food Inspection Scheme requirements
apply. Check our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON) for import conditions. We classify imported food that presents a potential medium or high risk to public health as
risk food. All risk food is listed in the Imported Food Control Order 2019. This includes, but is not limited to, these types of fresh, chilled, frozen, or dried berries:
Exclusions
Food safety management certificates (from 9 November 2022)From 9 November 2022, consignments of ready-to-eat berries that are either fresh, chilled or frozen, and are not retorted, must be covered by a food safety management certificate. This requirement does not apply to dried berries. The certificate must show that the producer has a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) based food safety management system in place. This system must identify and control food safety hazards, such as hepatitis A virus. The certificate must cover primary production and processing of the food. To meet our requirements, you must have either a:
See our determination for ready-to-eat berries that are fresh or frozen to find out what food safety management certificates we will recognise. Community Protection (CP) questionYou will need to answer this CP question when lodging your full import declaration. IFIS: Are the goods ready-to-eat berries that are either fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, and are not retorted? Inspection and testingWe refer consignments of berries for analytical testing at the rate of 5%. During inspection we will also conduct a visual and label assessment. Table 1 shows the tests that will be applied and permitted results. Table 1, Tests applied and permitted results
n = the minimum number of sample units that must be examined from a lot of food. Food safety risksFood Standards Australia New Zealand has given us advice that fresh and frozen, ready-to-eat berries present a potential high risk to public health for hepatitis A, and that dried, ready-to-eat berries present a potential medium risk to public health for hepatitis A. To make sure there are food safety controls in place to manage this hazard during production and processing, from 9 November 2022 we will require food safety management certificates for imports of the higher risk, fresh, chilled or frozen berries. DeterminationWe have identified what food safety management certificates we will recognise in this determination. The determination sets out:
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If you have difficulty accessing this file, visit web accessibility for assistance. GlossaryReady-to-eatFood is ready-to-eat if it is ordinarily consumed in the same state as that in which it is sold. To avoid doubt, food is not ordinarily consumed in the same state as that in which it is sold if, before it is consumed, it requires further processing (such as cooking) to reduce any pathogenic microorganisms potentially present in the food to safe levels. RetortedGoods (other than animal products) are retorted if they are heated in a hermetically sealed container for a time, and to a temperature, sufficient to make the contents commercially sterile. Version history
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