New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 170

Page 4401

✨ Food Standards Code



20 DECEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 4401

3 Prescribed standards for food

A reference in this Code to the nature, substance, composition, strength, weight, volume, quantity, purity or quality of any food, article, ingredient or component is the prescribed standard for that food, article, ingredient or component.

Editorial note:

It is an offence under State and Territory and Commonwealth legislation for food not to comply with a prescribed standard where a prescribed standard has been established for that food. This Code establishes that “prescribed standard”.

It is an offence under the New Zealand Food Act 1981 for food not to comply with applicable food standards issued under that Act.

4 Reference to Acts

In this Code, a reference to an Act includes any regulations made under that Act.

5 Guidelines and editorial notes

(1) In this Code, guidelines as developed by the Australia New Zealand Food Authority pursuant to paragraph 7(1)(c) of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991, to assist in the interpretation of the Code are not legally binding.

(2) In this Code, editorial notes are for information only and are not legally binding.

6 Units of measurement

(1) A symbol of measurement used in this Code -

(a)  has the meaning assigned to it under the Australian *National Measurement Act 1960* as amended, or the New Zealand *Weights and Measures Act 1987*; or

(b)  if there is no meaning assigned under the Australian *National Measurement Act 1960* as amended, or the New Zealand *Weights and Measures Act 1987* as amended has the meaning assigned to it in the Systeme Internationale d’Unites; or

(c)  if there is no meaning assigned in the Australian *National Measurement Act 1960* or the New Zealand *Weights and Measures Act 1987* as amended or the Systeme Internationale d’Unites, has the same meaning assigned to it in the Glossary of Units in this Standard.

(2) Where a unit of measurement is referred to in the heading of a table in this Code, the amounts specified in the table are to be measured according to those units unless a different unit of measurement is specified in relation to a particular item in the table.

7 Interpretation of compositional provisions

A reference to a compositional permission or requirement in this Code is a reference to the composition of the final food, unless expressly stated otherwise.



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