New Zealand Gazette – 2011 – No. 100

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✨ Food Standards Variation



2886 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 100 11 JULY 2011

| Ergot | Cereal grains | 500 |
| Methanol | Red wine, white wine and fortified wine | 3 g of methanol per litre of ethanol |
| | Whisky, Rum, Gin and Vodka | 0.4 g of methanol per litre of ethanol |
| | Other spirits, fruit wine, vegetable wine and mead | 8 g of methanol per litre of ethanol |
| Neurotoxic shellfish poisons | Bivalve molluscs | 200 MU/kg |
| Paralytic shellfish poisons (Saxitoxin equivalent) | Bivalve molluscs | 0.8 |
| Phomopsins | Lupin seeds and the products of lupin seeds | 0.005 |
| Polychlorinated biphenyls, total | Mammalian fat | 0.2 |
| | Poultry fat | 0.2 |
| | Milk and milk products | 0.2 |
| | Eggs | 0.2 |
| | Fish | 0.5 |
| Vinyl chloride | All food | 0.01 |

[18.10] omitting the definition of food in subclause 4(1), substituting -

food means the food or class of foods listed in Column 2 of the Table to this clause.

[18.11] omitting in bold type from the definition of natural toxicant from the addition of a flavouring substance in subclause 4(1)

[18.12] omitting subclauses 4(2) and 4(3), substituting -

(2) The maximum levels for natural toxicants from the addition of a flavouring substance in food are listed in Column 3 of the Table to this clause.

(3) Where a mixed food contains a food or class of foods listed in Column 2 of the Table to this clause, the proportion of the natural toxicant from the addition of a flavouring substance permitted to be present in the mixed food (ML1) is calculated in accordance with the formula prescribed in subclause 1(6).

[18.13] omitting the Table to clause 4, substituting -

Table to clause 4

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Toxicant | Food | Maximum level (mg/kg unless specified otherwise) |

| Agaric acid | Food containing mushrooms | 100 |
| | Alcoholic beverages | 100 |
| Aloin | Alcoholic beverages | 50 |
| Berberine | Alcoholic beverages | 10 |
| Coumarin | Alcoholic beverages | 10 |



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