SafeFish
SafeFish, provides technical advice to support Australia’s seafood trade and market access negotiations and helps to resolve barriers to trade.
SafeFish is primarily funded by the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC) and is the leading platform in their program for dealing with food safety and trade and market access issues affecting Australian seafood.
Technical Program
The technical program is underpinned by a strategy to identify current and emerging food safety and market access issues, prioritise these issues, and undertake technical work to provide potential solutions to overcome those of highest priority. This is known as the SafeFish prioritisation process, and is used as a robust method of determining the work program.
Current Technical Research
Following the 2021 hazard identification and prioritisation process that was held, the following issues were identified as having the highest priority to the Australian seafood industry. For the 2022-2025 period technical research on the following items will be undertaken to assist in addressing them:
- The impacts from Ready-to-eat (RTE) seafood due to consumer change with a focus on Listeria monocytogenes
- Chemical contaminants
- Vibrio in seafood
- Micro and nano plastics in seafood (watching brief)
- Ciguatera – progression of the delayed health care workers survey (and a continued watching brief)
Latest Content
The latest collection of SafeFish technical reports, communication outputs, news and articles can be found here.
Novel Coronovirus and Food Safety
FSANZ have compiled a page dedicated to providing information around COVID-19. A key message portrayed in this information is ‘That there is no evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted through food’. To view this content, please click here.
SafeFish Post-Graduate Scholarship
SafeFish is offering a post-graduate scholarship of $10,000pa to assist with research relating to market access and food safety of Australian seafood. For more information please click here, or to apply click here.
SafeFish Annual Report 2021-22
The 2021-2022 SafeFish Annual report is now available online. If you would like a printed version mailed to you, please contact the secretariat to request a copy.
COVID-19 Update
The FRDC in conjunction with SafeFish and other relevant experts, have developed an industry briefing for seafood relating to the developing Coronovirus pandemic. To view the briefing, please click here.