7 DECEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Fipronil

• Meat (mammalian)(in the fat) 0.1
• Sorghum 0.01

Imidacloprid

• Edible offal (mammalian) 0.2
• Maize 0.05
• Meat (mammalian) 0.05
• Milks 0.05

Ivermectin

• Sheep liver 0.015

Metolachlor

• Edible offal (mammalian) 0.05

Phosphorous acid

• Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits 100

Spinosad

• Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 0.5
• Peppers 0.2
• Tomato 0.2

Tebufenozide

• Avocado 0.5

[3] The Food Standards Code is amended by omitting Standard A18 and inserting—

STANDARD A18

FOOD PRODUCED USING GENE TECHNOLOGY

Purpose

Division 1 of this Standard addresses health and safety requirements, regulating the sale of food produced using gene technology, other than additives and processing aids. The Standard prohibits the sale and use of these foods unless they are included in the Table to clause 2 and comply with any special conditions in that Table.

The Authority will assess the safety for human consumption of each food produced using gene technology or such class of food prior to its inclusion in the Table. The safety assessment will be performed according to the Authority’s approved safety assessment criteria.

Additives and processing aids which are produced using gene technology are not regulated in Division 1 of this Standard. Other Standards in this Code regulate additives and processing aids and require pre-market approval for these substances.

Division 2 of this Standard specifies labelling and other information requirements for foods, including food additives and processing aids, produced using gene technology.

Table of Provisions

Division 1—Sale and use of food produced using gene technology

1. Interpretation
2. General prohibition on the sale and use of food produced using gene technology
3. Exemption to general prohibition on sale and use

Division 2—Labelling etc of food produced using gene technology

4. Interpretation and Application
5. Labelling of genetically modified food
6. Labelling of food which is not genetically modified
7. Additional labelling/information requirements

Clauses

Division 1—Sale and use of food produced using gene technology

1. Interpretation

For the purposes of this Standard—

a food produced using gene technology means a food which has been derived or developed from an organism which has been modified by gene technology.

Editorial Note:

This definition does not include a food derived from an animal or other organism which has been fed food produced using gene technology, unless the animal or organism itself is a product of gene technology.

gene technology means recombinant DNA techniques that alter the heritable genetic material of living cells or organisms.

2. General prohibition on the sale and use of food produced using gene technology

A food produced using gene technology, other than a substance regulated as a food additive or processing aid, must not be sold or used as an ingredient or component of any food unless it is listed in Column 1 of the Table to this clause and complies with the conditions, if any, specified in Column 2.

Table to Clause 2

3. Exemption to general prohibition on sale and use

(1) For the purposes of this clause—

(a) the Act means the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991;

(b) the Authority means the Australia New Zealand Food Authority established under the Act;