AUSTRALIA’S peak farmer body has renewed its call for a mandatory Food and Grocery Code of Conduct with the ‘teeth’ to fix a supply chain system it says is failing farmers and consumers.
The Albanese Government yesterday announced it had appointed Dr Craig Emerson to lead the 2023-24 review of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct “to ensure that the supermarket sector is working as it should.”
The Food and Grocery Code is prescribed under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to improve standards of business behaviour in the food and grocery sector. The code regulates the…