Name and Shame Initiative
In July 2008 the NSW government passed laws amending existing provisions which allowed the authority to publish details of successful food business prosecutions on its website . The new laws added, for the first time in Australia, provisions allowing for publication of details of penalty notices—akin to 'on-the-spot' fines—issued by enforcement staff for alleged breaches of food safety standards. Known colloquially as 'naming and shaming' food outlets, the initiative was a response to growing public demand for access to food business performance information, freedom of information advocates and the media.
A complimentary initiative termed 'Scores on Doors' is in pilot among some NSW local government areas and entails public display by participating retail food outlets of food safety inspection results, including those for high performing outlets as well as poorly performing ones.
Read more about this topic: New South Wales Food Authority
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