Food Safety Information Council: The Food Safety Information Council today launched its food safety advice for re-usable shopping bags in the lead up to the single use plastic bag ban on 1 July 2018. Rachelle Williams, Council Chair, said Queensland, Victoria and WA will ban single use plastic bags from 1 July, joining the ACT, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania who have had bans in place for several years. Although NSW will not have a ban, Coles and Woolworths have undertaken to phase out single use plastic bags nationally.

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