NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

9 MAY

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General Section

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991

Australia New Zealand Food Authority Variations to the Food Standards Code (Amendment No. 59)

1. Preamble

The variations set forth in the Schedule below are variations to the Food Standards Code (hereinafter called “the Code”) which was published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. P 27, on 27 August 1987, and which has been varied from time to time.

The Schedule contains variations adopted by the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council in March 2002.

These variations are published pursuant to section 32 of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991.

2. Citation

These variations may be collectively known as Amendment No. 59 to the Code.

3. Commencement

These variations commence on the date of gazettal.

SCHEDULE

[1] Standard A18 of Volume 1 and Standard 1.5.2 of Volume 2 are varied by inserting in Column 1 of the Table to clause 2 -

• Food derived from glufosinate ammonium-tolerant corn line T25
• Food derived from glyphosate-tolerant sugarbeet line 77
• Oil and linters derived from bromoxynil-tolerant cotton transformation events 10211 and 10222
• Oil derived from glufosinate-ammonium tolerant canola lines Topas 19/2 and T45 and glufosinate-ammonium tolerant and pollination controlled canola lines Ms1, Ms8, Rf1, Rf2 and Rf3

[2] Standard 1.2.4 is varied by -

[2.1] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Brown HT -

Butane -

[2.2] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Erythorbic acid -

Erythritol 968

[2.3] omitting from columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Guar gum -

4-hexylresorcinol -

inserting

4-hexylresorcinol 586

[2.4] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Hydrochloric acid -

Hydroxypropyl cellulose 463

[2.5] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Iron oxide -

Isobutane -

[2.6] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Nitrous oxide -

Octafluorocyclobutane -

[2.7] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 1, Food Additive Code Numbers (alphabetical order), immediately following the entry for Processed eucheuma seaweed -

Propane -

[2.8] omitting from columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 2, Food Additive Code Numbers (numerical order), immediately before the entry for Curcumin -

4-hexylresorcinol -

inserting immediately following the entry for *Magnesium gluconate* -

4-hexylresorcinol 586

[2.9] inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 2, Part 2, Food Additive Code Numbers (numerical order), immediately before the entry for Curcumin -

Butane –