Thank you, Minister.
The inspection verification teams will complement and support front-line inspection by doing two important things: first, they will confirm the effectiveness of an establishment's food safety controls when they arrive and undertake their in-depth review; second, they will overview the alignment of our inspection staff's activity to those food safety controls.
So it serves as an important audit-like confirmation that the rigour we expect in our inspection staff's activities is indeed being applied to the verification of those food safety controls. These activities will allow us to look not just at individual establishments, but also across all food establishments. This way, we will be able to identify any areas where improvements are required, together with best practices that we want to roll out across the entire system.