Registering your temporary and mobile food premises

Streatrader allows businesses and community groups that sell food from stalls and vans to make a registration application, lodge a notification or Statement of Trade, manage information and pay fees online to their principal council. This can be done anytime day or night with no need to go to the council office.  Once your application has been accepted by your principal council, you can trade anywhere in Victoria.

To register your temporary and mobile food premises, simply click on the Streatrader web button.

For further information email streatrader@health.vic.gov.au or call 1300 085 767.

Get serious about food safety this summer

Warmer weather and the outdoor celebrations mean that food poisoning is more common in summer than at any other time of year. 

Check out the Better Health Channel for more information.

New laws for selling eggs

On 26 November 2012, the Food Standards Code will include new Standard 4.2.5, the Primary Production and Processing Standard for Eggs and Egg Product, and an updated Standard 2.2.2, Eggs and Egg Products.

If you’re a retailer, wholesaler or distributor of eggs and egg products, find out how the law applies to you at Eggs – New laws for selling eggs. 

If you’re an egg producer that sells eggs, the new laws also apply to you. Find out more from the Department of Primary Industries.

Food safety program template folder availability

The Food safety program template for Class 2 retail and food service businesses No.1 version 2 hard copy in a durable folder is now available from the Information Victoria bookshop. You can purchase this online at www.bookshop.vic.gov.au, or from the bookshop at Level 20, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (Tel 1300 366 356).

Alternatively, you can use Foodsmart to develop a free food safety program tailored for the food handling activities in your business or download an identical copy of the template from the Food safety program templates page.

Community group temporary and mobile food premises template - Class 2 now available

The popular "Events" template has been updated and is now the "Community group temporary and mobile food premises template - Class 2". You can download the template at Community Groups.

This template is for community groups that operate temporary or mobile food premises that sell food and have been advised by council their activities fall under class 2.

Translated versions are now available in Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese:

• Arabic - Community group temporary and mobile food premises - class 2 food safety program template
• Chinese - Community group temporary and mobile food premises - class 2 food safety program template
• Vietnamese - Community group temporary and mobile food premises - class 2 food safety program template

Inter-agency Memorandum of Understanding for food regulation

The Department of Health, PrimeSafe, Dairy Food Safety Victoria and the Municipal Association of Victoria (representing local councils in Victoria) work together to ensure safe food is sold in Victoria. The MoU is an agreement on what agency takes the lead role in regulation. See Victorian food agencies roles & collaboration.

Donating food to emergency services

If you'd like to donate food - or help in any other way - during an emergency, the Donating food to emergency services flyer will help you determine the best way to assist.