The NSW Name and Shame List

The New South Wales Food Authority maintains a list on it’s website showing all the food businesses in that state which have breaches to the Food Standards Code or the NSW Food Act.

Every week the list is updated and people can check out the site to see if the food business they want to visit has been added to the list. Placement on the list will obviously impact on sales and this is an active encouragement to not have breaches.

The latest list is at See: http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/penalty-n…/default.aspx…

This week more premises were removed from the list than were added.

The rationale behind the list is that public exposure for breaches is a very effective method  to prevent such breaches. All businesses who have breached the Code or Act will be required to pay a penalty  in all states and territories, but in NSw, these fines are lower as the public exposure is considered a more effective tool.