✨ Food Standards Code Definitions
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package means any container or wrapper in or by which food intended for sale is wholly or partly encased, covered, enclosed, contained or packaged and, in the case of food carried or sold or intended to be carried and sold in more than one package, includes every such package, but does not include –
(a) bulk cargo containers; or
(b) pallet overwraps; or
(c) crates and packages which do not obscure labels on the food; or
(d) transportation vehicles.
permitted form means a form of a vitamin or mineral specified in column 2 of the Schedule.
prescribed name means a name by which a food is defined or described in a Standard, and is declared in this Code to be a prescribed name.
RDI means, for a vitamin or mineral in column 1 of the Schedule, the Recommended Dietary Intake, specified for that vitamin or mineral –
(a) in column 3; and
(b) in column 4 for children aged one to three years;
calculated and expressed in the form specified in column 2.
Editorial note:
The RDIs used in this Code are based on those published by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia in 1991.
relevant authority means the authority responsible for the enforcement of this Code.
State means a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.
statement of ingredients means a statement as required in Standard 1.2.4 in this Code.
supplier means the packer, manufacturer, vendor or importer of the food in question.
Territory means a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia.
warning statement means a statement required to be expressed in the text as so prescribed in this Code, in –
(a) clause 3 of Standard 1.1.3; and
(b) clause 3 of Standard 1.2.3; and
(c) clause 3 of Standard 2.6.3; and
(d) subclauses 15(1), 15(3), and 27(1) of Standard 2.9.1; and
(e) ragraph 5(3)(c) and subclause 6(2) of Standard 2.9.2; and
(f) subclauses 3(3) and 3(4) of Standard 2.9.4.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
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NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
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