The advent of new uniform food safety standards across the whole of Australia and New Zealand has brought about a change in the way SFQ will carry out its licensing, audit and enforcement on the Food Safety Act. SFQ required a solution that would automate a primarily paper-based system and minimize data re-entry and duplication; rapidly and accurately identify the source of contaminated product, and track this product through the food chain; ensure a cost effective method of capturing data remotely and provide audit reports and invoices to clients immediately after completion of the audit; provide the ability to share audit data between regulatory agencies such as Queensland Health, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) and the Department of Primary Industries.

​Avanade developed a .NET web service solution to provide a central repository and streamlined process for Safe Food and its associated Government Agencies to manage its information, conduct audits, review historical reports, track products, track chain relationships, and share data between one another, while using the latest available technologies. The .NET solution consists of an organizational extranet; a holder of accreditation extranet; a PDA application; Microsoft BizTalk implementation; XML web services.