New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 164

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✨ Food Standards Code Variations



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3. Commencement

These variations commence on the date of gazettal with the exception of:

  1. [1.2] — which commences six months from the date of publication of this New Zealand Gazette;

and

  1. [3] — Division 2 of Standard A18 which commences twelve months from the date of publication of this New Zealand Gazette.

4. Correction of typographical error

Amendment 51 published on 24 August 2000 contained a typographical error on page 2 in the section relating to commencement dates. The reference to “3.2.1” should read “3.2.2”.

5. Exceptions

In relation to Applications A374, A398, A401 and A407 which are included in this gazette notice, new maximum residue limits, variations to existing maximum residue limits and a changed commodity entry for lasalocid, lincomycin, neomycin and oxytetracycline have not been included.

Schedule

[1] Standard A1 is varied by—

[1.1] inserting immediately following clause 1—

(1A) (a) In this clause,

“appropriate designation” means a name or description or a name and description sufficiently specific in each case to indicate the true nature of the food to which it is applied

(b) Every package of food intended for sale must bear a label containing the following particulars

(i) where there is a standard prescribed for the food and a name has been prescribed to be used in relation to that food — the prescribed name and, in any other case, an appropriate designation;

(ii) the name and business address in Australia or New Zealand of the vendor, manufacturer or packer or in the case of imported food — the name and business address of the importer;

and

(iii) such other particulars as are prescribed in this Code.

[1.2] inserting immediately following clause (33)—

(34) The label on a package of food, other than a food standardised in Part K or Part P, which contains more than 11.5 mL/L of ethanol, must include a statement of the percentage by volume of alcohol in the food, in standard type in the form—

“CONTAINS X% ALCOHOL”

or words having the same or similar effect, inserting the proportion of ethanol that may be present at 20° C.

[2] Standard A14 is varied by—

[2.1] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1 each chemical shown in bold type below and its associated food and maximum residue limit for that food, listed below—

Chemical Food MRL
Buprofezin Citrus fruits 3
Edible offal (mammalian) 0.05
Meat (mammalian) 0.05
Milks 0.01
GA 27902 Banana 0.1
Grapes 3
Pome fruit 0.5
Fenhexamid Strawberry 5
Imazapyr Edible offal (mammalian) 0.05
Meat (mammalian)(in the fat) 0.05
Milks 0.01
Rape seed 0.05
Indoxacarb Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 1
Cotton seed 3
Edible offal (mammalian) 0.01
Meat (mammalian)(in the fat) 0.2
Milk (in the fat) 0.5
Pome fruit 2
Methoxyfenozide Cotton seed 0.05
Tomato 2
Novaluron Cotton seed 0.1
Tolyfluanid Strawberry 3

[2.2] omitting from columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1, in relation to each chemical shown in bold type below, the food and the maximum residue limit for that food listed below—

Chemical Food MRL
Carbendazim Chick-pea (dry) 1
Vegetables [except chick-pea; fruiting vegetables, cucurbits; fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits; mushrooms] 3
Chlorothalonil Vegetables [except carrot, celery, fruiting vegetables, leafy vegetables, cucurbits, leeks, onion bulb, potato, spring onion, tomato] 7
Fipronil Milk (in the fat) 0.01
Imidacloprid Cereal grains 0.05
Oxyfluorfen Cotton seed 0.05
Oxytetracycline Edible offal (mammalian) 0.25
Eggs 0.3

| Benzocaine | Abalone | 0.5 |
| | Finish | 0.5 |



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