Food Businesses

A food business is any enterprise or activity involving the handling or sale of food, such as cafes, restaurants, bakeries, market food stalls, and food vans.  

Burnie Council supports food businesses by maintaining a food business register, offering guidance, and conducting routine inspections to ensure high food safety standards across the municipality.  Requirements include:

Notification:  Businesses and individuals that sell low-risk prepackaged food are required to notify Council.  This includes, shelf-stable foods that are not processed (cut, handled or prepared in any way) and that do not require temperature control.

Registration:  Businesses that sell, handle or produce food are required to be registered with Council annually. These include permanently constructed fixed premises, mobile food businesses, and temporary food businesses operating for one off events, stalls at markets.

Our Environmental Health Officers are available to assist with selecting and completing the necessary paperwork or providing advice on safe food handling.