New Zealand Gazette – 2015 – No. 51

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✨ Food Standards Notices



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 51 — 8 MAY 2015

Permitted novel food

Tall oil phytosterol esters

Conditions of use

  1. Tall oil phytosterol esters must comply with the specification for tall oil phytosterol esters in Schedule 3.

  2. The food must comply with the requirements in Standard 1.2.1 insofar as they relate to section 1.2.3—2.

  3. The name ‘tall oil phytosterol esters’ or ‘plant sterol esters’ must be used.

  4. May only be added to cheese and processed cheese, in accordance with Standard 2.5.4.

  5. Foods to which tall oil phytosterol esters have been added must not be used as ingredients in other foods.

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Schedule 26 - Food Produced Using Gene Technology - 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.

Food produced using gene technology is regulated by paragraphs 1.1.1—10(3)(c) and (4)(g) and Standard 1.5.2. This standard lists food produced using gene technology, and corresponding conditions, for paragraph 1.5.2—3(a).

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.

S26—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 26 – Food produced using gene technology.

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.

S26—2 Interpretation

(1) In this Schedule, headings in bold type are for information only, and do not list food for the purpose of section 1.5.2—3.

(2) In this Schedule:

conventional breeding means all methods used to produce plants, excluding techniques that use gene technology.

line means:

(a) a plant, the genetic material of which includes a transformation event or events; or

(b) any plant, descended from the plant referred to in paragraph (a), that is the result of conventional breeding of that plant with:

(i) any other plant that does not contain a transformation event or events; or

(ii) any other plant that contains a transformation event or events, whether expressed as a line or event, that is listed in the table to section S26—3;

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🏥 Schedule 25 - Permitted Novel Foods - 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, Permitted novel foods, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Code Revision, Food Safety
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

🏥 Schedule 26 - Food Produced Using Gene Technology - Food Standards (Proposal P1025 - Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 154

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
25 March 2015
Food standards, Gene technology, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Code Revision, Food Safety
  • Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand