Food Standards Amendments




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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 108

General

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991

Australia New Zealand Food Authority—Variations to the Food Standards Code (Amendment No. 35)

1. Preamble

The variations set forth in the Schedule below are variations to the Food Standards Code (hereinafter called “the code”) which was published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. P 27, on 27 August 1987, and which has been varied from time to time.

The Schedule contains variations adopted by the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council in May, June and July 1997.

These variations are published, pursuant to section 32 of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991.

2. Citation

These variations may be collectively known as Amendment No. 35 to the code.

3. Commencement

These variations commence on the date of publication of this New Zealand Gazette.

4. Correction of Typographical Error

Amendment 34 published on 15 May 1997, contained a typographical error in Item 13, relating to Standard D2. The maximum permitted level of calcium disodium EDTA should read “250 mg/kg”.


Schedule

[1.] Standard A8 is varied by—

[1.1] omitting “not permitted” from the Table to clause (5), in relation to the entry in the Column headed “Sucralose” for “Chewing Gum” and substituting “1.25 g/kg”; and

[1.2] omitting “not permitted” from the Table to clause (5), in relation to the entry in the Column headed “Sucralose” for “Electrolyte drink and electrolyte drink base”, and substituting “75 mg/kg”.

[2.] Standard A12 is varied by deleting from the Table the reference to cadmium in Column 1 and all entries in Columns 2 and 3 relating to cadmium and substituting—

Cadmium Chocolate and cocoa products 0.5
Kidney of cattle, sheep or pig 2.5
Leafy vegetables (as specified in Schedule 3 to Standard A14) 0.1

[3.] Standard A14 is varied by—

[3.1] omitting from Schedule 1, in relation to the entry in Column 1 for “Dimethoate”, entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively for—

“2 Fruits (except strawberry)”

and substituting—

“2 Fruits (except strawberry)

5 Litchi”; and

[3.2] inserting in Schedule 1, entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively—

Abamectin
Cattle milk 0.005
Cotton seed 0.01
Pear 0.01
Tomato 0.01
Apple 0.01
Strawberry 0.02
Altenogest
Pig meat
Pig, edible offal of
Chlorfenapyr
Cotton seed
Cyclanilide
Cotton seed
Cyprodinil
Pome fruit
Diofenolan
Citrus fruits
Mango
Papaya (Pawpaw)
Avocado
Macadamia nuts
Stone fruits
Pome fruits
Etofenprox
Cotton seed
Fenpyroximate
Apple
Pear
Pyrimethanil
Apple
Pear
Grapes

| Liver of cattle, sheep or pig | 1.25 |
| Meat flesh of cattle, sheep or pig | 0.05 |
| Molluscs (excluding dredge/bluff oysters and queen scallops) | 2 |
| Oysters | 0.05 |
| Peanuts | 0.1 |
| Rice | 0.1 |
| Root and tuber vegetables (as specified in Schedule 3 to Standard A14) | 0.1 |
| Wheat | 0.1



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