✨ Food Safety Regulations
4650 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 170
Standard 1.5.1
Novel Foods
(Note: Clause 2 Takes Effect on 16 June 2001)
Purpose
This Standard regulates the sale of novel food and novel food ingredients. This Standard prohibits the sale of these foods unless they are listed in the Table to clause 2, and comply with any special conditions of use in that Table. The specific permission may impose conditions relating to matters such as the need for preparation or cooking instructions, warning statements or other advice, or the need to meet specific requirements of composition or purity.
The purpose of this Standard is to ensure that non-traditional foods which have features or characteristics which raise safety concerns will undergo a risk-based safety assessment before they are offered for retail for direct consumption in Australia and/or New Zealand.
The Authority will assess the safety for human consumption of each novel food prior to its inclusion in the Table. The safety assessment will be performed in accordance with the Authority’s safety assessment guidelines.
Foods produced using gene technology and foods which have been irradiated are regulated in Standards 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 respectively.
Table of Provisions
1 Definitions
2 Sale of novel foods
Clauses
1 Definitions
In this Standard-
non-traditional food means a food which does not have a history of significant human consumption by the broad community in Australia or New Zealand.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
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