BE ASSURED – AUSTRALIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM Business group: TI Program: Sustainable Dairy Industry Production Systems o Demonstrating the paddock to plate approach to food safety in the dairy industry The Australian dairy industry has a well earned reputation for producing safe, quality products. The assurance systems in place to underpin this reputation are based on a combination of regulatory and voluntary measures. The dairy industry’s practices are subject to much scrutiny by government regulators (both domestic and overseas) and customers. When overseas governments and customers come and audit Australian dairy industry food safety practices, the whole chain approach is presented to them prior to field audits at farms and at dairy factories. Dairy Australia, in consultation with industry, recognised the need to demonstrate the dairy industry’s whole supply chain approach to quality assurance. It is important for those actively engaged in, or associated with, the dairy industry to be able to clearly portray the robust voluntary and regulatory underpinning of the dairy industry’s approach to quality assurance. Dairy Australia produced a short DVD to focus on the farm sector of dairy production. It portrays how the dairy industry’s food safety systems meet a range of regulatory and commercial requirements. It also features farming practices that embrace good animal welfare and NRM systems. The DVD has been widely distributed to industry, government and customers. It has already been used as a technical resource to inform interested parties both in Australia and overseas of the dairy industry’s assurance measures. Further segments on post-farmgate sectors are in development.
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