2020-21 Food Notifiable Contaminants Data

The South Australian Public Health (Notifiable Contaminants) Regulations 2020 (the Regulations) came into force on 19 July 2020, and require the detection of specific microorganisms (related to foodborne illness e.g. campylobacter, salmonella and listeria) in food and water samples to be reported to the Food and Controlled Drugs Branch (FCDB) of SA Health by the analysing laboratory service (or business where the laboratory is interstate). This data reports on the number of notifications received by FCDB in 2020-21.