The Export Standards Branch (ESB) works with industry stakeholders and international trading partners:
- to maintain, improve, and establish new market access for meat, fish, dairy, eggs, animal by-products and other goods, by negotiating agreed conditions of trade.
- to maintain and update the Manual of Importing Country Requirements (Micor)
- manage the SAFEMEAT Secretariat and support Commonwealth participation
- provide chemical residue and microbiological policy oversight for export certification.
- as the Australian Codex Alimentarius Contact Point and hosts the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification
- to coordinate and develop policy and technical input to influence international food standards.
Key People
- GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601
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