Development of Primary Produce Safety (Horticulture Produce) Regulations 2026 - Phase 2

Phase 2 public consultation on revised draft Tasmanian Primary Produce Safety (Horticulture Produce) Regulations 2026 is now closed.

Your feedback from Phase 2 will help ensure that the final Regulations are fit for purpose and help balance requirements for producers with the need to ensure that the Tasmanian produce we enjoy is safe for consumers to eat.

Find out more about this consultation:

Next steps

Submissions received during the phase 2 public consultation are now being reviewed.

Revised draft Regulations

Phase 1 feedback from stakeholders in 2025 informed the revised draft Regulations. The key changes for Phase 2 included:

a proposed tiered accreditation and fee model
the introduction of a 'notification' category
exclusion of nursery stock from regulation

The following intent for the Regulations remains unchanged:

the adoption of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Primary Production and Processing (PPP) Standards in Tasmania
the establishment of new food safety schemes for berries, leafy greens, and melons – as already in place in Tasmania for meat, poultry, seed sprouts, eggs and seafood

Primary Produce Safety (Horticulture Produce) Regulations 2026 - Consultation Draft (PDF 826Kb)

Phase 1 Consultation Summary Report and submissions

All submissions received from Phase 1 public consultation in late 2025 have been reviewed. Key themes, concerns and feedback received from Phase 1 are presented in a Consultation Summary Report.

Primary Produce Safety (Horticultural Produce) Regulations 2026 - Phase 1 Consultation Summary Report (PDF 577Kb)

Submissions from Phase 1 have also been published in line with the Tasmanian Public Submissions Policy and are availble in the documents below:

Primary Produce Safety (Horticultural Produce) Regulations 2026 - Phase 1 email submissions (PDF 14Mb)

Primary Produce Safety (Horticultural Produce) Regulations 2026 - Phase 1 online submissions (XLSX 76Kb)

Phase 2 Consultation Summary Report and submissions

All submissions received from Phase 2 public consultation in mid 2026 will be reviewed and then published on this page.

Key themes, concerns and feedback received from Phase 2 will be analysed and presented in a Consultation Summary Report that will be made available on this page once complete.

More information

More information is available on the Draft Regulations At a Glance, Supporting Information and FAQ pages

Questions about the revised draft Regulations or the public consultation process can be sent to: product.integrity@nre.tas.gov.au

About your submission

If you submitted a response for this consultation, your name (or the name of the organisation) will be published unless you requested otherwise. No personal information other than an individual’s name or that of the organisation making a submission will be published.

In the absence of a clear indication that a submission was intended to be treated as confidential (or parts of the submission), the Department will treat the submission as public.

Copyright in submissions remains with the author(s), not with the Tasmanian Government. The Department will not publish, in whole or in part, submissions containing defamatory or offensive material. If your submission included information that could enable the identification of other individuals, then either all or parts of the submission will not be published.

The Right to Information Act 2009 and confidentiality

Information provided to the Government may be provided to an applicant under the provisions of the Right to Information Act 2009 (RTI). If you have indicated that you wish all or part of your submission to be treated as confidential, your statement detailing the reasons may be taken into account in determining whether or not to release the information in the event of an RTI application for assessed disclosure. You may also be contacted to provide any further comment.