Healthy Kids School Canteen Association

Product Registration Procedure

To register a product with the Healthy Kids School Canteen Association the procedure is as follows:

1. Make contact with the Healthy Kids Food Industry Team, either by email info@healthy-kids.com.au or phone 02 9876 1300. You will be asked to submit Nutrition Information Panels and Ingredients lists to determine the products appropriate food category. The Healthy Kids Team will provide you with the relevant nutrient criteria for your submitted products food category for your own assessment against the nutrient cut offs.
2. Have your product/s assessed by the Food Industry Team. An application form will be sent to businesses that wish to proceed with the registration process and payment of an assessment fee will be required before further assessment is conducted by the Healthy Kids Team.
3. Complete and return the application form, along with the assessment fee to Healthy Kids SCA with final samples of the product/s and packaging. For A Product Registration Check List see below. 
4. Applications will be processed and successful products added to the Buyers Guide.

Common Mistakes Made by Food Industry Resulting in Unsuccessful Registration

1. Product labelling not compliant with FSANZ Food Standards Code. Visit www.foodstandards.gov.au for the Code.EG: Ingredients lists not listed in descending order, nutrient content claims not substantiated.
2. False or misleading representations. Visit ACCC and follow links to The Food and Beverage Industry – Food descriptors guidelines. www.ACCC.gov.au EG: Images of fruit or use of fruit names when fruit component in the ingredients is different to the fruit image, name or flavour.
3. Inappropriate serve sizes EG: a bottled drink or single portion packaged food containing more then one serve such as a can of drink.
4. Products not labelled with a Nutrition Information Panel (NIP).  This has been the case with foods intended for use in catering establishments which by FSANZ do not require NIP’s. All products submitted for assessment at HK require a NIP on every product not just the final reconstituted product.
5. Insufficient samples received. EG: One sample of a single product line in one flavour when four different flavours of the same product line are being registered.

Product Registration Check List

Requirements for Product Assessment by the Healthy Kids Food Industry Team

1. Does the product labelling meet FSANZ Food Standards                 
2. Is an ingredients list included                                                                  
3. Is a product descriptor included                                                              
4. If your product is a baked product, cereal or grain based 
snack/ biscuit or soup, have you included the dietary fibre content      
5. If your product is a milk/dairy based/dairy alternative 
product have you included the calcium content                                        
6. Are the finalised labels included                                                             
7. Are your product assessment fees included                                        
8. Is your application form completed