✨ Food Standards Amendment
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 75
STANDARD 1.1A.2
TRANSITIONAL STANDARD – HEALTH CLAIMS
Purpose
This Standard incorporates clause (19) of Standard A1 of the Australian Food Standards Code, and operates as a transitional alternative standard to Standard 1.2.7 for a period of two years from the commencement of Standard 1.2.7. During this time, food must comply with this Standard or Standard 1.2.7 of the Code. After the two-year transition period, Standard 1.2.7 will exclusively apply. ‘Stock-in-trade’ provisions contained in Standard 1.1.1 should also be referred to, along with Standard 1.2.8 and 1.3.2.
Clauses
(1A) For the matters regulated in this Standard, food must comply with this Standard or Standard 1.2.7, but not a combination of both.
(1B) Subject to clause (1D), this Standard ceases to have effect two years from the commencement of Standard 1.2.7.
(1C) Subclauses (3)(e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) cease to have effect on 13 February 2004.
(2) The label on or attached to a package containing or an advertisement for food shall not contain a claim or statement that the food is a slimming food or has intrinsic weight-reducing properties.
(3) (a) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, any label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not include a claim for therapeutic or prophylactic action or a claim described by words of similar import.
(b) Any label on or attached to a package containing or an advertisement for a food shall not include the word ‘health’ or any word or words of similar import as a part of or in conjunction with the name of the food.
(c) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, any label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not contain any word, statement, claim, express or implied, or design that directly or by implication could be interpreted as advice of a medical nature from any person.
(d) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, the label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not contain the name of or a reference to any disease or physiological condition.
(e) Subject to subclauses (3)(f), (g) and (h), a food listed in column 1 of the Table to this subclause may have a health claim listed in column 3 of the Table made in respect of that food, provided that the food meets the relevant eligibility criteria in column 2 of the Table.Next Page →
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2002, No 75
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NZ Gazette 2002, No 75
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