New Zealand Gazette – 2015 – No. 50

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✨ Food Standards Amendment



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 50 — 8 MAY 2015

Schedule 4 - Nutrition, Health and Related claims - 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.

This Standard, together with Schedule 5 and Schedule 6, relates to Standard 1.2.7 (nutrition, health and related claims), and sets out information for the purpose of that Standard.

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.

S4—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 4 – Nutrition, health and related claims.

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.

S4—2 Definitions

Note In this Code (see section 1.1.2—2):

sugars:

(a) in Standard 1.2.7, Standard 1.2.8 and Schedule 4 (except where it appears with an asterisk as ‘sugars*’) —means monosaccharides and disaccharides; and

(a) otherwise—means any of the following products, derived from any source:

(i) hexose monosaccharides and disaccharides, including dextrose, fructose, sucrose and lactose;

(ii) starch hydrolysate;

(iii) glucose syrups, maltodextrin and similar products;

(iv) products derived at a sugar refinery, including brown sugar and molasses;

(v) icing sugar;

(vi) invert sugar;

(vii) fruit sugar syrup;

but does not include:

(i) malt or malt extracts; or

(ii) sorbitol, mannitol, glycerol, xylitol, polydextrose, isomalt, maltitol, maltitol syrup, erythritol or lactitol.

Note Sugar is defined differently—see section 1.1.2—3.

Note Sugars* is relevant for claims about no added sugar.

S4—3 Conditions for nutrition content claims

For subsection 1.2.7—12(1), the table is:

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🏥 Schedule 4 - Nutrition, Health and Related claims - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 154

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 March 2015
Food standards, Nutrition claims, Health claims, Code revision, Food regulation
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand