NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 31

General

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991

Australia New Zealand Food Authority—Food Standards

The Australia New Zealand Food Authority advises progress on the following matters relating to the Australian Food Standards Code.

You can get further information on these matters in information papers which are available from:

The Information Officer
Australia New Zealand Food Authority
P.O. Box 10-559
WELLINGTON 6036
Telephone: (04) 473 9942
Facsimile: (04) 473 9855
Email: anzfa.nz@anzfa.gov.au

Matters at Full Assessment

The authority has developed the following proposal and will now make a full assessment of it:

Claims About Foods (P169). A proposal to assess voluntary claims and representations made about food. The proposal assesses a range of representations: including slimming claims, negative claims and emphasis of ingredients but does not assess health claims or nutrient/nutrition claims which will be assessed in separate proposals. The information paper on this matter provides further information, including advice on the authority’s policy regarding submissions.

You are invited to present written submissions to the authority on matters relevant to this proposal, including the potential regulatory impact on consumers, industry and government, by 27 April 1998.

Matters at Inquiry

The authority will conduct an inquiry into the draft variations to standards prepared at full assessment of the following application:

Folic Acid in Supplementary Foods (A337). An application received on 25 March 1997 from Peter and Brownes Group to permit folic acid to be added to the Schedule to Standard R9—Supplementary Foods at a maximum claimable level of 100 µg per reference quantity (200 ml).

Moisture Absorbent Sachets (A345). An application from Drypac Pty Limited to include a provision for the use of cross-linked sodium polyacrylate in moisture absorbent sachets for food packages.

Foods Produced Using Gene Technology (P97). A proposal to establish a standard for foods produced using gene technology.

You are invited to present written submissions to the authority on matters relevant to this inquiry, including the potential regulatory impact on consumers, industry and government, by 10 April 1998. The information paper on this matter provides further information, including advice on the authority’s policy regarding submissions.

Matters Before Council

The authority has completed inquiries into the draft standards and variations to standards prepared at full assessment of the following application and proposal and has made recommendations to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council that the variations be adopted into the Food Standards Code. Details of the recommended standards and the reasons for them are available from the authority.

New Zealand Wool Board

Wool Industry Act 1977

Payment of Levy to Wool Board by Collection Agents Providing an Undertaking

Pursuant to section 47 (1) (b) (i) of the Wool Board Act 1997, notice is hereby given that:

From and including the date of this notice, the period in which any collection agent, giving an undertaking to the board to secure an exemption from maintaining a trust account for levy, is required to pay levy money directly to the board is:

(a) within 11 working days after sale at auction; and

(b) in every other case, within 18 days of the month in respect of which the leviable transaction occurred.

Dated this 20th day of February 1998.

LILIAN BAKER, Board Secretary, New Zealand Wool Board.