New Zealand Gazette – 2002 – No. 137

Page 3657

✨ Food Standards Amendment



17 SEPTEMBER

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[8]

Standard 1.2.10 is varied by –

[8.1]

inserting in the Table of Provisions immediately following clause 4 –

4A
Method of determining the proportion of the characterising ingredient where the
proportion is declared in a nutrition information panel

[8.2]

omitting clause 1 and clause 2, substituting –

1

Interpretation

(1)

In this Standard –

category of ingredients means ingredients declared in the statement of ingredients
using a generic name set out in the Table to clause 4 of Standard 1.2.4.

characterising component means a component of a food that –

(a) is mentioned in the name of a food; or

(b) is usually associated with the name of a food by the consumer; or

(c) is emphasised on the label of a food in words, pictures or graphics.

Editorial note:
Two examples of characterising components of food are milkfat in ice cream and cocoa
solids in chocolate.

characterising ingredient means an ingredient or category of ingredients that –

(a) is mentioned in the name of a food; or

(b) is usually associated with the name of a food by the consumer; or

(c) is emphasised on the label of a food in words, pictures or graphics;

but does not include –

(d) an ingredient or a category of ingredients which is used in small
quantities for the purposes of a flavouring; or

(e) an ingredient that is the sole ingredient of a food; or

(f) a category of ingredients that comprises the whole of the food; or

(g) an ingredient or category of ingredients which, while mentioned in
the name of the food, is not such as to govern the choice of the
consumer, because the variation in the quantity is not essential to
characterise the food, or does not distinguish the food from similar
foods.

(2)

Compliance with labelling requirements elsewhere in this Code does not of itself
constitute emphasis for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of characterising
component or characterising ingredient.

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