Most foods contain micro-organisms (germs), and some foods may contain food poisoning micro-organisms.
These may be naturally present or may result from contact with other environmental sources such as soil, air, and hands.
See our tips for food preparation, storage and handling of food you bring from home.
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In this section:
- Anthrax
- Avoiding heat-related stress
- Bushfire air quality
- Chickenpox
- Ciprofloxacin
- Composting Toilets
- Death Cap Mushrooms
- Eating Food Outdoors
- Flooding
- Food - BBQ with friends
- Food Businesses - Duties
- Food safety in hot weather
- Food Stalls - Fetes and Fundraising
- Greywater use
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis C
- Home Isolation
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
- Listeria and Listeriosis
- Measles
- Measles: Information for Contacts
- Meningococcal
- Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE)
- Outbreak Management - Information for bus drivers
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pregnancy and Immunisation
- Psittacosis
- Rifampicin
- Salmonella
- Shiga toxing-producing E. coli (STEC) & Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Smoke-free Outdoor Eating and Drinking Areas
- Tamiflu (Oseltamivir)- Consumer Information
- Treated effluent
- Tuberculosis
- Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE)
- Asbestos
- Bronchiolitis
- Campylobacter
- Chlamydia
- Clostridium difficile
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Drinking Water Private
- Fact sheets
- Food Temperatures - Danger Zone
- Food - Cooking for a Party
- Food Handler Responsibilities
- Food Stalls - BBQ (commercial)
- Gonorrhoea
- Head Lice
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis E
- Influenza
- Keeping Poultry
- Malaria
- Measles - Normal Human Immunoglobulin
- Medicines and Poisons
- Mould
- Norovirus Gastroenteritis
- Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine (Panvax®).
- Pregnancy and Food Safety
- Provision of toilets at public events
- Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus
- Rota virus
- Salt
- Shingles
- Synthetic Cannabis
- Tanning Units in Solaria
- Treated timber ash
- Typhoid
- Viral Gastroenteritis











