✨ Food Standards Amendment
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 49 — 8 MAY 2015
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.
Division 1 Preliminary
1.2.8—1 Name
This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 1.2.8 – Nutrition information requirements.
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.
1.2.8—2 Purpose
This Standard sets out nutrition information requirements in relation to foods for sale that are required to be labelled under this Code, and for foods for sale that are exempt from these labelling requirements. This Standard sets out when nutrition information must be provided, and the manner in which such information must be provided.
Note Standard 1.2.7 also sets out additional nutrition information requirements in relation to nutrition content claims and health claims. Information provided voluntarily in a nutrition information panel is a nutrition content claim.
Note 2 This Standard does not apply to infant formula products. Standard 2.9.1 sets out specific nutrition labelling requirements for infant formula products.
1.2.8—3 Application of Standard
This Standard does not apply to infant formula products.
Note See Standard 2.9.1.
1.2.8—4 Definitions
Note In this Code (see section 1.1.2—2):
average energy content means the average energy content calculated in accordance with section S11—2.
available carbohydrate means available carbohydrate calculated in accordance with section S11—3.
available carbohydrate by difference means available carbohydrate by difference calculated in accordance with section S11—3.
biologically active substance means a substance, other than a nutrient, with which health effects are associated.
claim means an express or implied statement, representation, design or information in relation to a food or a property of food which is not mandatory in this Code.
claim requiring nutrition information:
(a) means:
(i) a nutrition content claim; or
(ii) a health claim; and
(b) does not include:
(i) a declaration that is required by an application Act; or
(ii) an endorsement.
dietary fibre means that fraction of the edible part of plants or their extracts, or synthetic analogues that:
(a) are resistant to digestion and absorption in the small intestine, usually with complete or partial fermentation in the large intestine; and
(b) promote one or more of the following beneficial physiological effects:
(i) laxation;
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