✨ Food Standards Amendment
18 JANUARY 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 3 95
1 Purpose
This Standard -
(a) sets out the claims that can be made on labels or in advertisements about the nutritional content of food (described as nutrition content claims) and the claims that can be made on labels or in advertisements about the relationship between a food or a property of a food, and a health effect (described as health claims); and
(b) describes the conditions under which such claims can be made; and
(c) describes the circumstances in which endorsements can be provided on labels or in advertisements.
2 Interpretation
In this Standard -
average energy content is as defined in Standard 1.2.8.
biologically active substance is as defined in Standard 1.2.8.
biomarker means a measurable biological parameter that is predictive of the risk of a serious disease when present at an abnormal level in the human body.
carbohydrate is as defined in Standard 1.2.8.
dietary fibre is as defined in Standard 1.2.8.
endorsement means a nutrition content claim or a health claim that is made with the permission of an endorsing body.
endorsing body is a not-for-profit entity which has a nutrition- or health-related purpose or function that permits a supplier to make an endorsement.
fat is as defined in Standard 1.2.8.
food group means any of the following groups -
(a) bread (both leavened or unleavened), grains, rice, pasta and noodles;
(b) fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices and fungi;
(c) milk and milk products as standardised in Part 2.5 and analogues derived from legumes and cereals mentioned in Column 1 of the Table to clause 3 in Standard 1.3.2;
(d) meat, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds and dried legumes;
(e) fats including butter, edible oils and edible oil spreads.
fruit means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are present in the typical proportion of the whole fruit (with or without the peel or water), but does not include nuts, spices, herbs, fungi, legumes and seeds.
fvnl is as defined in item 4 of Schedule 5 for the purpose of calculating V points.
general level health claim means a health claim that is not a high level health claim.
gluten means the main protein in wheat, rye, oats, barley, triticale and spelt relevant to the medical conditions coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis.
glycaemic index (GI) means a measure of the blood glucose raising ability of the digestible carbohydrates in a given food as determined by a recognised scientific method.
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