✨ Food Safety Standards
4662 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 170
SPC means standard plate count at 30°C with an incubation time of 72 hours.
2 Application
(1) The foods listed in column 1 of the Schedule in this Standard must, subject to subclause (2) and subclause (3), comply with the microbiological limits set in relation to that food in the Schedule.
(2) The Standard Plate Count (SPC) in powdered infant formula with added lactic acid producing cultures must not exceed the microbiological limits set in the Schedule, prior to the addition of the lactic acid cultures to the food.
(3) Unpasteurised milk which is not for retail sale, is not required to comply with the microbiological limits set out in the Schedule to this Standard.
3 Sampling of foods for microbiological analysis
(1) At the point of sampling, a lot of a food must have taken from it, n sample units as specified in Column 3 of the Schedule in this Standard, unless specified otherwise in this Standard.
(2) An authorised officer who takes or otherwise obtains a sample of food for the purpose of submitting it for microbiological analysis -
(a) shall not divide that sample into separate parts; and
(b) where the sample consists of one or more than one sealed package of a kind ordinarily sold by retail, must submit for such analysis that sample in that package or those packages in an unopened and intact condition.(3) Where an authorised officer takes or otherwise obtains a sample of food which is the subject of a suspected food poisoning incident or consumer complaint, the results of an analysis conducted on such food are not invalid by reason that fewer sample units than prescribed have been analysed or that a sample unit analysed is smaller than prescribed.
4 Prescribed methods of analysis
(1) Subject to subclause (2) and subclause (3), the Australian/New Zealand Standard methods for Food Microbiology AS/NZS 1766, as of the date of commencement of this Standard, must be used to determine whether a food has exceeded the maximum permissible levels of the foodborne microorganisms specified in relation to that food in the Schedule.
(2) Any equivalent method to those specified in subclause (1), as determined by the provisions of AS/NZS 4659 as of the date of commencement of this Standard, is permitted to be used for the purposes of this Standard.
(3) The Australia/New Zealand Standard Methods for Water Microbiology AS 4276 must be used for packaged water, packaged ice and mineral water.
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