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The introduction of a mandatory Food and Grocery Code of Conduct will be a positive step for farmers and families, NSW Farmers says, but they say more needs to be done.
A voluntary code of conduct for major supermarket chains was introduced in 2015 to improve standards of business behaviour in the food and grocery sector but is essentially non-binding.
On Monday 1 July the federal government announced that it would impose new obligations on supermarket chains to treat their suppliers fairly, or the supermarkets will face fines of $10 million or three times the financial benefit of the breach…