New Zealand Gazette – 2015 – No. 50

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✨ Food Standards Schedule



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 50 — 8 MAY 2015

Purpose Sub-classes Definition
Raising agent liberates gas and thereby increase the volume of a food
Sequestrant forms chemical complexes with metallic ions
Stabiliser binder, firming agent, water binding agent, foam stabiliser maintains the homogeneous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a food
Thickener thickening agent, texturiser, bodying agent increases the viscosity of a food

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Schedule 15 - Substances That May Be Used as Food Additives - 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.
Substances used as food additives are regulated by Standard 1.1.1 and Standard 1.3.1. This Standard:

  • identifies substances for subparagraph 1.1.2—11(2)(a)(i); and
  • contains permissions to use substances as food additives for paragraph 1.3.1—3(1)(a); and
  • contains associated restrictions for paragraph 1.3.1—3(1)(b); and
  • sets out maximum permitted levels for section 1.3.1—4.

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.

S15—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 15 – Substances that may be used as food additives.

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.

S15—2 Permissions to use substances as food additives

For each class of food identified by a numbered heading in the table to section S15—5, the substances that may be used as a food additive in any food within that class are the following:

(a) any of the substances listed directly under the heading;

(b) any of the substances listed directly under a higher-level heading.

Example For the heading numbered 4.3.4, higher-level headings are those numbered 4.3 and 4. However, headings such as those numbered 4.3.4.1, 4.3.3, 4.2 and 3 are not higher-level headings.

Note In many cases, there is more than 1 substance listed directly under a heading.

S15—3 Preparations of food additives

If a substance may be used as a food additive under the table to section S15—5:

(a) the substance may be added in the form of a preparation of the substance; and

(b) other substances may be used as food additives in the preparation in accordance with the permissions



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🏥 Schedule 14 - Technological Purposes Performed by Substances Used as Food Additives - 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 additives, Technological purposes, Food standards, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Food regulation

🏥 Schedule 15 - Substances That May Be Used as Food Additives - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code - Amendment No. 154

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