A mobile food premises is a vehicle from which a person sells unpackaged food by retail. This does not include a food transport vehicle that is only used to transport food for a business for off-site catering or a food delivery vehicle. Food businesses operating from mobile premises are required to comply with the provisions of the Food Act 2006 and Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code and are subject to the same licensing requirements as a food business operating from fixed premises.
A food business operating from mobile premises is only required to have a food business licence in one of the local governments within which they intend to operate.
Queensland Health will provide access to a publicly available register of food businesses carried on from mobile premises under a licence. The register of mobile food vendors contains the following details of each mobile food business: