Egg food safety scheme

The risk assessment updated in June 2022:

• examines new literature
• examines outbreak data.

The assessment supports continuation of the scheme and notes low levels of familiar common problems and some emerging issues.

• Egg food safety scheme: periodic review of the risk assessment, June 2022 (pdf 400KB, 44pp)

  Table of contents

  Table of contents
  Executive summary
  Introduction
  - NSW Food Regulation 2015
  - Egg and egg product facilities in NSW
  - Legislation, Standards and Industry Guidelines applicable to egg businesses
  - Updating the 2013 Risk Assessment
  Risk assessment
  - Hazard identification  
  - Exposure assessment
  - Hazard characterisation
  - Risk characterisation
  Conclusion
  References