Queensland Food Business Licence Application or Inspection and Improvement Notice Record
Council food business licence applications, food premises inspection reports and improvement notices under the Food Act 2006 (Qld). A person must hold a licence to carry on a licensable food business (s 49). The application is made to the local government (s 52) in the approved form, which must provide for the applicant's contact details (s 85). It must state the applicant's name and address, or for a corporation its directors, the premises, the business, and details of any conviction for a relevant offence (s 53). Council decides suitability, including convictions and previous refusal, suspension or cancellation (s 57). An authorised person may give an improvement notice stating the provision believed to be contravened, how it is contravened and the period to remedy it (s 209). Information gained in administering the Act about a person's affairs is confidential (s 272). The chief executive's register of mobile-premises food businesses (ss 264-266), council lists of licensed businesses and published conviction or "name and shame" registers are public and are decoys.
- Type
- regex
- Engine
- boost_regex
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence justification
- Medium. Licence and inspection vocabulary is statutory (Food Act 2006 ss 49, 52-53, 57, 209), but it also fills council web pages, the Act and public licence lists, and "improvement notice" is shared with work health and safety law. Enforce tiers therefore need food context and populated same-line fields, and public registers are excluded by phrase. Licence and inspection numbers are council-defined and are not relied on. A company licensee name matches the person field, so an unlabelled public list that names companies with phone numbers can still reach 75. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy. Test values are synthetic.
- Jurisdictions
- au, au-qld
- Regulations
- Food Act 2006 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
- Frameworks
- QGISCF
- Data categories
- pii, government, business
- Scope
- narrow
- Risk rating
- 4
- Platform compatibility
- Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported
Pattern
(?i)\b(?:food\s+business\s+licen[cs]e(?:\s+(?:application|renewal|restoration|amendment|number|no\.?|certificate|conditions))?|licen[cs]e\s+to\s+carry\s+on\s+a\s+licensable\s+food\s+business|licensable\s+food\s+business|food\s+(?:safety|premises|business)\s+inspection(?:\s+(?:report|record|checklist|findings))?|(?:routine|follow[- ]up|compliance)\s+inspection\s+report|improvement\s+notice|food\s+safety\s+supervisor\s+(?:notification|details)|accredited\s+food\s+safety\s+program)\bCorroborative evidence keywords
Food Act 2006, food business, food premises, Food Standards Code, licensee, non-compliance, improvement notice, environmental health officer
Proximity: 300 characters
Should match
Food safety inspection report - Harbourview Regional Council Licensee: Avery Teston Mobile: 0491 570 156 Premises: Shop 3, 14 Wharf Street, Harbourview QLD 4655 Inspection result: unsatisfactory Non-compliance: cool room holding at 11C, above the 5C limit in Food Standards Code standard 3.2.2 Remedy by: 15/10/2026— Inspection report naming the licensee with a mobile and the non-compliance findings (85 tier)Improvement notice - Food Act 2006 s 209 Licensee: Morgan Teston Residential address: 22 Banksia Drive, Mackay QLD 4740 Provision contravened: Food Standards Code standard 3.2.2 clause 24 (hand washing facilities) Period to remedy: 14 days from the date of this notice— Improvement notice naming the licensee with a home address and the contravention (85 tier)Application for a food business licence (licensable food business) Applicant's full name: Riley Teston Residential address: 9 Fig Tree Lane, Toowoomba QLD 4350 Date of birth: 04/07/1988 Details of the offence: fined in 2023 for selling food that was not suitable Food safety supervisor: Casey Teston— Licence application with applicant identity and s 53 conviction details (85 tier)Re: food business licence renewal for the cafe at 3 Wharf Street. The food business owner asked us to update the contact details. Mobile: 0491 570 157 Email: jordan.teston@mailtest.au— Renewal correspondence with the licensee's private mobile and email (75 tier)Routine inspection report (food premises) Inspection outcome: follow-up required Non-compliance: no soap or paper towel at the food preparation hand basin— Food premises inspection finding without personal fields (75 tier)
Should not match
209 Improvement notice (1) This section applies if an authorised person reasonably believes a person carrying on a food business is contravening a provision of this Act. (3) The improvement notice must state the provision the authorised person believes is being, or has been, contravened and the period in which the person must remedy the contravention.— Food Act 2006 s 209 text (legislation, 65 only)Application for a food business licence Applicant's full name: ______________ Residential address: ______________ Phone: ______________ Convictions for a relevant offence: ______________ Food safety supervisor: ______________— Blank licence application form (65 only)Register of food businesses (mobile premises), kept under s 264 and available for inspection free of charge. Each licensable food business is listed. Licensee: Harbour Coffee Van Pty Ltd Licence number: MFB-2026-018 Phone: 07 5550 1234 Expiry: 30/06/2027 Description: coffee van— Public register of mobile food businesses (public-register exclusion)Food business name and shame register - convictions published by council Business: Harbour Takeaway Pty Ltd Premises: 12 Wharf Street, Harbourview Offence: failure to comply with an improvement notice under the Food Act 2006 Conviction date: 14/03/2026 Penalty: $8,000— Published name-and-shame conviction register (public-register exclusion)Council environmental health officers issued 42 improvement notices to food businesses this year and completed 1,310 food premises inspections, the annual report shows.— News / annual report statistics (65 at most)Improvement notice issued under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 Person conducting a business or undertaking - contact phone: 0491 570 158 Contravention: edge protection missing on the level 2 scaffold Remedy by: 30/10/2026— WHS improvement notice without food context (65 only)
Known false positives
- Food Act text, council licensing web pages, fact sheets and application guides. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need food context and a populated same-line field; guidance phrases are excluded.
- Public registers - the chief executive's register of mobile-premises food businesses (s 266), council lists of licensed businesses and published conviction or name-and-shame registers. Mitigation: Register and name-and-shame phrases are excluded. Business name and premises address are not person fields. An unlabelled public list that names a company licensee with a phone number can still reach 75.
- Work health and safety improvement notices. Mitigation: They lack food context, so they stay at 65.