New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 170

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✨ Food Identification Requirements



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Standard 1.2.2

Food Identification Requirements

Purpose

This Standard requires that certain information must be included on the label on a food in order to be able to identify the food in question. The labels on a package of food for retail sale, other than in the circumstances listed in Standard 1.2.1 must include, in addition to the information prescribed in this Standard, the information prescribed elsewhere in Part 1.2 of this Code.

Table of Provisions

  1. Name of food
  2. Lot identification
  3. Name and address of supplier

Clauses

1 Name of food

(1) The label on a package of food must include -

(a) the prescribed name of the food, where the name of a food is declared in this Code to be a prescribed name; and

(b) in any other case, a name or a description of the food sufficient to indicate the true nature of the food.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the definitions of certain foods as set out in Chapter 2 of this Code, do not of themselves establish the name of the food.

Editorial note:
For example, the definitions for –
1. Bread in Standard 2.1.1
2. Fermented milk in Standard 2.5.3
3. Ice cream in Standard 2.5.6


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VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 2000, No 170


Gazette.govt.nz — PDF NZ Gazette 2000, No 170




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏥 Application of Labelling and Other Information Requirements (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Food Labelling, Retail Sale, Catering, Intra-company Transfer, Small Package, Transportation Outer

🏥 Food Identification Requirements

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Food Identification, Labelling, Retail Sale, Supplier Information