New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 170

Page 4473

✨ Food Standards Regulations



20 DECEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 4473

2 Declaration of characterising ingredients and characterising components

(1) Subject to subclause (3), the label on a package of food must include a declaration of the proportion of characterising ingredients and characterising components of the food, calculated and expressed in accordance with this Standard.

(2) Subject to subclause (3), a declaration of the percentage of the characterising ingredients and characterising components of a food, calculated and expressed in accordance with this Standard, where the -

(a)  food is unpackaged; or
(b)  food is made and packaged on the premises from which it is sold;
must be -
(c)  displayed on or in connection with the display of the food; or
(d)  provided to the purchaser upon request.

(3) Subclause (1) and subclause (2) do not apply to –

(a)  food assembled in the presence of the purchaser; or
(b)  food for catering purposes; or
(c)  food delivered packaged and ready for immediate consumption at the express order of the purchaser; or
(d)  prepared filled rolls, sandwiches, bagels and similar products; or
(e)  food sold at fund raising events; or
(f)  food in a small package; or
(g)  food standardised in Standard 2.9.1; or
(h)  cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces.

Editorial note:

Where the proportion of a characterising component of a food is declared in accordance with this Standard, the ingredients, category of ingredients or parts thereof, comprising that characterising component are not required to be declared as a characterising ingredient or category of ingredients of the food.

These declarations must be considered in the light of the prohibitions on false, misleading or deceptive representations in the Food or Health Acts and fair trading laws of New Zealand and the States, Territories and the Commonwealth. In so doing it is necessary to consider whether a false or misleading impression is conveyed to a purchaser of a particular food product.

In order to determine whether the characterising components or characterising ingredients of a food should be declared, a manufacturer of food should consider which declaration best reflects the nature of the food as sold or imported. For example, milkfat is not typically an ingredient in ice cream, but would be considered to be a characterising component in ice cream, and should be so declared.



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