New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 68

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✨ Food Standards Amendment



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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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Food additives

  1. Notwithstanding the prohibition on the addition of food additives to food in clause 2 of Standard 1.3.1, food additives may be added to food, either –

    (a) where expressly permitted by clause 3 of Standard 1.3.1; or
    (b) where expressly permitted elsewhere by this Code;

but not a combination of paragraph 1(a) and paragraph 1(b).

Dual Standards

  1. Notwithstanding any provisions elsewhere in this Code, a food specified in the Table to this clause made or produced in Australia is deemed to comply with all requirements of this Code if it complies with –

    (a) Standard A12; and
    (b) Standard A14; and
    (c) all relevant microbiological standards contained in this Code; and
    (d) all relevant provisions in the New Zealand Food Regulations 1984 as amended, other than those provisions relating to:

     (i) maximum residue limits for agricultural and veterinary chemicals; and
 (ii) maximum permitted concentrations for contaminants in foods.

Table to clause 3

Food standardised in Part H, other than goat’s milk standardised in Standard H5
Food standardised in Standard J3
Food standardised in Standard K3
Food standardised in Standard O2
Food standardised in Standard O7
Food standardised in Standard Q3
Food standardised in Standard R4
Salad dressing

[3] The Food Standards Code is varied by inserting after Standard T1 –

STANDARD 1.3.1

FOOD ADDITIVES

Purpose

A food additive is any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as an ingredient of food, but which is intentionally added to a food to achieve one or more of the technological functions specified in Schedule 5. It or its by-products may remain in the food. Food additives are distinguishable from processing aids (see Standard 1.3.3) and vitamins and minerals added to food for nutritional purposes (see Standard 1.3.2). This standard regulates the use of food additives in the production and processing of food. A food additive may only be added to food where expressly permitted in this standard. Additives can only be added to food in order to achieve an identified technological function according to Good Manufacturing Practice.



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