You do not need a food business licence if you undertake the following activities:
- you only handle packaged food
- you produce primary produce like milk or meat at a butcher, with accreditation. Refer to Safe Food Production Queensland for more information.
- you only sell unpackaged snack food, including:
- croissants, crackers, friands, doughnuts, muffins, churros, biscuits or cakes without dairy fillings or dairy icings
- carob, chocolates, chocolate bars, confectionery or muesli bars
- dried vegetable chips, corn chips, potato chips or nuts
- meat jerky, dried or glazed fruit
- pretzels, popcorn, puffed rice, soy chips or toasted corn
- you only sell whole fruit or vegetables
- the only preparation carried out involves the grinding of coffee beans
- you only sell the following, unless it forms a potentially hazardous food:
- whole, crushed, puffed or toasted nuts, grains and seeds
- quinoa, spices, dried herbs, tea leaves, coffee beans, cereals or cocoa
- coconut, (uncooked) couscous, edible oil, flour, legumes, lentils, noodles, oats or pasta
- preparations for spreading on bread like honey, peanut butter, hazelnut spread, vegemite, marmalade and jam
- sugar and syrups like golden syrup, maple syrup, rice syrup, malt syrup, glucose syrup and coconut syrup
- you only sell drinks (other than fruit or vegetable juice processed at the place of sale), including:
- you only sell ice or flavoured ice, for example:
- shaved ice or snow cones
- slurpees.