New Zealand Gazette – 2011 – No. 100

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✨ Food Standards Code Variation



11 JULY 2011 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 100

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[16.6] inserting in the Table to clause 14 –

| Colours permitted in Schedules 2, 3 and 4 of Standard 1.3.1 | Applied to the outer surface of meat as a brand for the purposes of inspection or identification | GMP |

[17] Standard 1.3.4 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code is varied by –

[17.1] omitting the Purpose, substituting –

Purpose

This Standard ensures that food additives, processing aids, novel food substances, vitamins and minerals and nutritive substances added to food in accordance with this Code meet appropriate specifications for identity and purity. In general, these specifications are those used by the international community.

[17.2] omitting clauses 1, 2 and 3, substituting –

1 Application

This Standard applies only to the following substances which are added to food in accordance with this Code, or sold for use in food –

(a) food additives;

(b) processing aids;

(c) vitamins and minerals;

(d) novel food substances; and

(e) nutritive substances.

2 Substances with specifications in primary sources

A substance must comply with a relevant monograph published in one of the following –

(a) the Schedule to this Standard; or

(b) Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications, FAO JECFA Monograph 1 (2005) as superseded by specifications published in FAO JECFA Monographs 3 (2006) and FAO JECFA Monographs 4 (2007) and FAO JECFA Monographs 5 (2008) and FAO JECFA Monographs 7 (2009) and FAO JECFA Monographs 10 (2010), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Rome; or

(c) Food Chemicals Codex (7th Edition) published by United States Pharmacopoeia (2010).

3 Substances with specifications in secondary sources

If there is no monograph applying to a substance under clause 2, the substance must comply with a relevant monograph published in one of the following –

(a) the British Pharmacopoeia 2010, TSO, Norwich (2010); or

(b) the United States Pharmacopeia, 34th Revision and The National Formulary, 29th Edition (2010); or

(c) the Pharmaceutical Codex, 12th Edition, Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The Pharmaceutical Press, London (1994); or

(d) Martindale; The Complete Drug Reference. The Pharmaceutical Press London (2009); or

(e) the European Pharmacopoeia 6th Edition, Council of Europe, Strasbourg (2007); or

(f) the International Pharmacopoeia 4th Edition, World Health Organization, Geneva (2006 and 2008 supplement); or

(g) the Merck Index, 14th Edition, (2006); or

(h) the Code of Federal Regulations; or

(i) the Specifications and Standards for Food Additives, 7th Edition (2000), Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan); or

(j) the International Oenological Codex (2010 supplementary edition), Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV).



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