Food Standards Amendment




NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 82

31 JULY 2014

Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991

Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 149

The following instruments are separate instruments in the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments and are known collectively in the Food Standards Gazette as Amendment No. 149.

Food Standards (Proposal P1014 – Primary Production & Processing Standard for Meat & Meat Products) Variation

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this variation under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991. The Standard commences on the date specified in clause 3 of this variation.

Dated 25 July 2014.
Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Note:
This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 91 on 31 July 2014. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of clause 3 of the variation.

1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Proposal P1014 – Primary Production & Processing Standard for Meat & Meat Products) Variation.

2 Variation to Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code

The Schedule varies the Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

3 Commencement

The variation commences on a date 12 months after the date of gazettal.

SCHEDULE

[1] Standard 1.6.2 is varied by omitting clause 6 and the Editorial Note to clause 6

[2] Standard 4.2.3 is varied by

[2.1] omitting Divisions 1 and 2 and substituting

Division 1 – Preliminary

1 Interpretation

(1) In this Standard –

meat product means a food containing no less than 300 g/kg of meat.

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, the definitions in Chapter 3 of this Code apply for the purposes of this Standard.

Division 2 – Primary production of meat

2 Definitions

In this Division –

meat means any part of a slaughtered animal for human consumption.

meat producer means a business, enterprise or activity that involves the growing, supply or transportation of animals for human consumption.

2A Animals covered by this Division

(1) In this Division, a reference to an animal means an animal of a species listed in Column 2 of the Table.

(2) However, a reference to an animal does not include an animal of a species listed in Column 2 of the Table if that animal was slaughtered in the wild.

Table to clause 2A

| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| Item | Species |
|----------|-----------|
| 1 | Bovine |
| 2 | Caprine |
| 3 | Ovine |
| 4 | Porcine |
| 5 | Bubaline |
| 6 | Camelidae |
| 7 | Cervidae |
| 8 | Crocodylidae |
| 9 | Lagomorph |
| 10 | Ratite |
| 11 | Soliped |



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Food Standards, Meat Products, Primary Production, Processing Standard
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand