✨ Food Standards Amendment
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 3
18 JANUARY 2013
STANDARD 1.2.7
NUTRITION, HEALTH AND RELATED CLAIMS
Table of Provisions
Part 1 – Purpose and interpretation
1 Purpose
2 Interpretation
Part 2 – Claims framework and general principles
3 Nutrition content claims or health claims not to be made about certain foods
4 Standard does not apply to certain foods
5 Standard does not apply to certain claims and declarations
6 Form of food to which provisions of this Standard apply
7 Claims not to be therapeutic in nature
8 Claims not to compare vitamin or mineral content
9 Standard does not prescribe words
Part 3 – Requirements for nutrition content claims and health claims
Division 1 – Nutrition content claims
10 Presentation of nutrition content claims
11 Nutrition content claims about properties of food in Schedule 1
12 Nutrition content claims about properties of food not in Schedule 1
13 Nutrition content claims about choline, fluoride or folic acid
14 Nutrition content claims must not imply slimming effects
15 Comparative claims
Division 2 – Health claims
16 Application or proposal to vary Schedule 3 taken to be a high level health claims variation
17 Conditions for making health claims
18 Requirement when making a general level health claim under paragraph 17(4)(b)
19 How health claims are to be made
20 Split health claims
21 Statements for claims about phytosterols, phytostanols and their esters
Division 3 – Endorsements
22 Endorsing bodies
23 Criteria for endorsements
Division 4 – Additional labelling of food required to meet the NPSC
24 Method for calculating a nutrient profiling score
25 Labelling of food required to meet the NPSC
26 Labelling exemptions for certain foods
Schedule 1 Conditions for nutrition content claims
Schedule 2 Conditions for permitted high level health claims
Schedule 3 Conditions for permitted general level health claims
Schedule 4 Nutrient profiling scoring criterion
Schedule 5 Nutrient profiling scoring method
Schedule 6 Process of systematic review
Part 1 – Purpose and interpretation
Editorial Note:
Standard 1.1A.2 is a transitional standard that operates concurrently with this Standard 1.2.7 for a period of three years. During the three-year period Standard 1.1A.2 operates unchanged by this Standard and related variations made by the Food Standards (Proposal P293 – Nutrition, Health & Related Claims – Consequential) Variation. A supplier can rely on this Standard or Standard 1.1A.2, but not both. At the end of the three-year period, Standard 1.1A.2 will cease to operate. There is no stock-in-trade period at the end of the three-year period.
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