New Zealand Gazette – 2013 – No. 3

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✨ Food Standards Amendment



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 3

18 JANUARY 2013

[5.20] omitting Division 3, substituting –

Division 3 – Deleted

[5.21] inserting after clause 18 –

19 Items in panel are nutrition content claims in some circumstances

(1) In this clause –

voluntary item means a particular which is permitted by this Code to be included in a nutrition information panel.

mandatory item means a particular which is required by this Code to be included in the nutrition information panel in some or all circumstances.

(2) To avoid doubt, the inclusion of a mandatory item in a nutrition information panel is not a nutrition content claim.

(3) The inclusion of a voluntary item in a nutrition information panel is a nutrition content claim unless –

(a) this Code provides otherwise; or

(b) the voluntary item is a declaration of –

(i) dietary fibre if the food contains less than 2 g of dietary fibre per serving; or

(ii) trans fatty acid content; or

(iii) lactose content.

(4) A nutrition information panel that contains the prescribed declarations in paragraphs 5(1)(a) to 5(1)(f) on a product containing more than 1.15% alcohol by volume is not a nutrition content claim.

[5.22] updating the Table of Provisions to reflect the amendments made by this variation

[6] Standard 1.3.2 is varied by –

[6.1] omitting from the first sentence of the Purpose –

, and the claims which can be made about vitamin and mineral content of foods

[6.2] omitting the definitions of claimable food, primary food and reference quantity from clause 1, substituting –

reference quantity means –

(a) for a food mentioned in the Table to clause 3 –

(i) the quantity specified in the Table for the food or,

(ii) for a food that requires dilution or reconstitution according to directions – the quantity of the food that, when diluted or reconstituted, produces the quantity mentioned in column 2 of the Table; or

(b) for all other foods –

(i) a normal serving; or



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