New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 170

Page 4397

✨ Food Standards Code



20 DECEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 4397

Division 2 – General Prohibitions

9 Prohibition on addition of nutritive substances to food

10 Addition of “other foods”

11 Prohibition on altering labels

12 Modification of prescribed statement

13 Application of labelling provisions to advertising

Schedule

Permitted forms, Recommended Dietary Intakes (RDIs) and the Estimated Safe and Adequate Daily Dietary Intakes (ESADDIs) for vitamins and minerals

Clauses

Division 1 – Interpretation and Application

1 Application of this Code

Unless specifically provided elsewhere in this Code, the provisions of this Code apply to food which is -

(a) sold or prepared for sale in Australia and/or New Zealand; and/or

(b) imported into Australia and/or New Zealand.

Editorial note:

Food for which no specific standard is contained in Chapter 2 of this Code, must comply with the general provisions of Chapter 1.

2 Interpretation

Unless expressly defined elsewhere in this Code -

Act means the Act, as amended or, as the case may be, Ordinance of a State, Territory, External Territory, Commonwealth or New Zealand, under the authority of which this Code is enforced.

ANZS means a joint Australia New Zealand Standard published by Standards Australia.

AOAC means the publication entitled “Official methods of Analysis of AOAC International” published by AOAC International, Virginia USA and includes earlier editions of this publication under its previous name.

AS means an Australian Standard published by Standards Australia.

Australian Approved Name means a name included in the “Herbal Substances AAN List” of the “Australian Approved Names List”.

Australian Approved Names List means the list of names or terms included in the document entitled “Australian Approved Names for Pharmaceutical Substances” published by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in its edition “TGA Approved Terminology for Medicines” dated July 1999.



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🏥 Preliminary Provisions of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (continued from previous page)

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Food Standards, Code, Prohibitions, Labelling, Advertising, Nutritive Substances, Vitamins, Minerals, RDIs, ESADDIs