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Sections 110 and 111 of the Food Act require the following businesses to display kilojoule information at the point of sale:

• a food business that sells Standard Food Items; and
• the business is a Standard Food Outlet; and
• the business is part of a chain/franchise/group that sells Standard Food Items at 7 or more places in the ACT or at 50 or more places in Australia.

Standard Food Items are items of ready-to-eat food that are sold in standardised servings. They may be listed or otherwise shown on a menu (e.g. picture display) or they may be displayed for sale with a tag or label (e.g. price tag, name tag, etc).

Note: Prepacked serves of salad, sandwiches, pies or sushi that are prepared and packaged offsite and sold in the same packaging must comply with the labelling requirements for packaged foods.

A food business is a Standard Food Outlet if:

• (a) the food business sells Standard Food Items at other premises or while operating in a chain of food businesses that sell Standard Food Items; and
• (b) at least one of the Standard Food Items sold by the business is also sold at another of its outlets or by other food businesses in the chain.

When displaying the nutritional information it must be:

• clearly legible
• expressed in ‘kJ’
• in the same font, and at least the same font size, as the price (or if no price is displayed,
• the same font/size as the name of the item)
• adjacent to, or in close proximity to, the name or price of the item.

If Standard Food Items are displayed on the menu and a tag, the kilojoule content needs to be displayed on both the menu and the tag.