New Zealand Gazette – 2015 – No. 49

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✨ Food Standards Amendments



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 49 — 8 MAY 2015

(b) caster sugar;

(c) icing sugar;

(d) loaf sugar;

(e) coffee sugar;

(f) raw sugar.

white sugar means purified crystallised sucrose.

2.8.1—3 Requirement for food sold as white sugar

A food that is sold as ‘white sugar’ must:

(a) be white sugar; and

(b) have no less than 99.7% sucrose content, calculated on a dry basis.

2.8.1—4 Requirement for food sold as icing

A food that is sold as ‘icing’ must be icing.

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Standard 2.8.2 - Honey - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision)

Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Amendment No. 154

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this standard under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.

The Standard commences on 1 March 2016.

Dated 25 March 2015
Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Note:
This Standard will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 96 on 10 April 2015.

Note 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.

Note 2 The provisions of the Code that apply in New Zealand are incorporated in, or adopted under, the Food Act 2014 (NZ). See also section 1.1.1—3.

2.8.2—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 2.8.2 – Honey.

Note Commencement: This Standard commences on 1 March 2016, being the date specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.

2.8.2—2 Definitions

Note In this Code (see subsection 1.1.2—3):

honey means the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of blossoms or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which honey bees collect, transform and combine with specific substances of their own, store and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature.

2.8.2—3 Requirement for food sold as honey

A food that is sold as ‘honey’ must:

(a) be honey; and

(b) contain:

(i) no less than 60% reducing sugars; and

(ii) no more than 21% moisture.

2.8.2—4 Prescribed name

‘Honey’ is a prescribed name.

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🏥 Standard 2.8.1 - Sugar and Sugar Products - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 154 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 March 2015
Food standards, Sugar, Amendment, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

🏥 Standard 2.8.2 - Honey - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Amendment No. 154

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 March 2015
Food standards, Honey, Amendment, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand