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Registration for Temporary Food Permit

As of 2013, the way that we apply for a temporary Food Permit (now called a Statement of Trade) from the Monash City Council, Public Health Unit has gone DIGITAL. The information required is minimal as your food safety practise is now covered by our annual registration as a Food Premise.

However, we are still required to notify Monash City Council (via the Foodtrader website) each time we have an event, when food is cooked OUTSIDE of the GWUC building and sold/distributed to the public for any fund raising venture or event. For example, a sausage sizzle outside Bunnings or Pancake Day on GWUC’s front lawn. A minimum of 1 business day notice is required by the authorities. However, it will be prudent to apply for a Statement of Trade at least 10 days ahead of the event as the approval of the application usually takes longer than anticipated.

The information required for notification are:-

1. Location, Event name if applicable, Address and City Council overseeing that location. This notification is State wide and we do this through referencing Monash as our Principal Council.
2. Date of event or specify the start and finish range of dates.
3. Type of food being cooked and sold.
4. Name of your group, the person responsible for this stall and your preferred contact number [if I need to call for clarification].

Points 1, 2 & 3 needs to be entered via the Vic. Health Dept. website by GWUC’s current Food Safety Supervisor, YanEmms as the nominated liaison. A single user account has been allocated and the site is password protected. These measures are required to comply with the Victorian Food Act and failure to do so may jeopardise our Church’s registration as a Class 3 Food Premise.

Created dlm Feb 2013 from a letter from Yan. Updated April 2014.