✨ Food Standards Code Definitions
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 49 — 8 MAY 2015
Note For the meaning of one-day quantity in relation to a formulated caffeinated beverage, see subsection 2.6.4–5(5).
package:
(a) means any container or wrapper in or by which food for sale is wholly or partly encased, covered, enclosed, contained or packaged; and
(b) if food is carried or sold or intended to be carried and sold in more than one package—includes each package; and
(c) does not include:
(i) a *bulk cargo container; or
(ii) a pallet overwrap; or
(iii) a crate and packages which do not obscure labels on the food; or
(iv) a transportation vehicle; or
(v) a vending machine; or
(vi) a hamper; or
(vii) a container or wrapper (including a covered plate, cup, tray or other food container) in which food is served in a prison, hospital or *medical institution; or
(viii) for Standard 2.9.5—a covered plate, cup, tray or other food container in which food for special medical purposes is served by a *responsible institution to a patient or resident.
permitted flavouring substance means any of the following:
(a) a substance that is listed in at least one of the following publications:
(i) Generally Recognised as Safe (GRAS) lists of flavouring substances published by the Flavour and Extract Manufacturers’ Association of the United States from 1960 to 2013 (edition 26);
(ii) Chemically-defined flavouring substances, Council of Europe, November 2000;
(iii) Annex I of Council Regulation (EU) No 872/2012 of 1 October 2012 adopting the list of flavouring substances [2012] OJ L267/1;
(iv) 21 CFR § 172.515;
(b) a *flavouring substance obtained by physical, microbiological, enzymatic or chemical processes from material of vegetable or animal origin either in its raw state or after processing by traditional preparation process including drying, roasting and fermentation;
(c) a flavouring substance that is obtained by synthetic means and which is identical to one of the substances described in paragraph (b).
phytosterols, phytostanols and their esters: a reference to phytosterols, phytostanols and their esters is a reference to a substance which meets a specification for phytosterols, phytostanols and their esters in section S3—24.
polyunsaturated fatty acids means the total of polyunsaturated fatty acids with cis-cis-methylene interrupted double bonds.
prescribed name, of a particular food, means a name declared by a provision of this Code to be the prescribed name of the food.
Note Under the labelling provisions in Standard 1.2.1 and section 1.2.2—2, if a food has a prescribed name, it must be used in the labelling of the food.
processing aid—see used as a processing aid, section 1.1.2—13.
property of food means a component, ingredient, constituent or other feature of food.
protein substitute means:
(a) L-amino acids; or
(b) the hydrolysate of one or more of the proteins on which infant formula product is normally based; or
(c) a combination of L-amino acids and the hydrolysate of one or more of the proteins on which infant formula product is normally based.
RDI means Recommended Dietary Intake—see section 1.1.2—10.
ready-to-eat food means a food that:
(a) is ordinarily consumed in the same state as that in which it is sold; and
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