✨ Health Claims Regulation
3 JULY
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1959
(g) The label on or attached to a package of food, in respect of which a health claim set out in the Table has been made, must include -
(i) a nutrition information panel in accordance with Standard 1.2.8, which additionally includes the average quantity of folate in one serving of the food, beside the proportion of the RDI of folate contributed by one serving of the food;
(ii) an asterisk accompanying the word 'folate' in the nutrition information panel which refers to a footnote advising that the RDI of 200 micrograms referred to is for adults, whereas for women, at least one month before and during pregnancy, the recommended folate intake is 400 micrograms per day;
(iii) an accompanying statement that it is important to maintain a varied diet; and
(iv) a statement of particular storage, handling or cooking requirements, where the ability of a food to contain at least 40 micrograms folate per each serving depends on those requirements.
(h) Where a label, in respect of which a health claim set out in the Table has been made, is displayed on or in connection with a food which is displayed for retail sale other than in a package, the label must include -
(i) a nutrition information panel in accordance with Standard 1.2.8, which additionally includes the average quantity of folate in one serving of the food, beside the proportion of the RDI of folate contributed by one serving of the food; and
(ii) an asterisk accompanying the word 'folate' in the nutrition information panel which refers to a footnote advising that the RDI of 200 micrograms referred to is for adults, whereas for women, at least one month before and during pregnancy, the recommended folate intake is 400 micrograms per day.
(iii) an accompanying statement that it is important to maintain a varied diet; and
(iv) a statement of particular storage, handling or cooking requirements, where the ability of a food to contain at least 40 micrograms folate per each serving depends on those requirements.
(i) Where a health claim may be made in relation to a food in accordance with this Standard the same claim in relation to that food may be made in an advertisement, provided the advertisement includes a statement that it is important to maintain a varied diet.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2002, No 75
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2002, No 75
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