Food Standards (Proposal P1036 – Code Revision – Consequentials & Corrective Amendments) Variation
The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this variation under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991. The variation commences on the date specified in clause 3 of this variation.
Dated 28 August 2015
Standards Management Officer
Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand
Note:
This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 99 on 3 September 2015.
1 Name
This instrument is the Food Standards (Proposal P1036 – Code Revision – Consequentials & Corrective Amendments) Variation.
2 Variation to Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
The Schedule varies the Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
3 Commencement
The variation commences on 1 March 2016 immediately after the commencement of Standard 5.1.1 – Revocation and transitional provisions – 2014 Revision.
SCHEDULE
Standard 1.1.1 – Structure of the Code and general provisions
[1] Subsection 1.1.1—2(2)
(a) Omit
Standard 1.2.6 Directions for use and storage
Substitute
Standard 1.2.6 Information requirements – directions for use and storage
(b) Omit
Standard 1.2.10 Characterising ingredients and components of food
Substitute
Standard 1.2.10 Information requirements – characterising ingredients and components of food
(c) Omit
Standard 1.2.11 Country of origin labelling requirements
Substitute
Standard 1.2.11 Information requirements – country of origin labelling
(d) Omit
Standard 2.8.1 Sugars
Substitute
Standard 2.8.1 Sugar and sugar products
(e) Omit
Schedule 14 Technological purposes performed by food additives
Substitute
Schedule 14 Technological purposes performed by substances used as food additives
(f) Omit
Schedule 16 Definitions for certain types of substances that may be used as food additives
Substitute
Schedule 16 Types of substances that may be used as food additives
(g) Omit
Schedule 27 Microbiological limits for foods
Substitute
Schedule 27 Microbiological limits in food
(h) Omit
Schedule 28 Composition of packaged water
Substitute
Schedule 28 Formulated caffeinated beverages
[2] Subsection 1.1.1—13(2) (Note 1)
Omit ‘Note 1’, substitute ‘Note’
[3] Subsection 1.1.1—13(3) (First example)
Omit ‘Example’, substitute ‘Example 1’
Standard 1.1.2 – Definitions used throughout the Code
[4] Section 1.1.2—7(2) (paragraph (a) in definition of acute care hospital)
Omit ‘ailments,’ substitute ‘ailments’
Standard 1.2.1 – Requirements to have labels or otherwise provide information
[5] Subsection 1.2.1—6(3)
Omit ‘*individual portion pack’, substitute ‘individual portion pack’
[6] Paragraph 1.2.1—16(3)(b)
Omit ‘paragraph 1.2.1—8(1)(k)’, substitute ‘paragraph 1.2.1—8(1)(j)’
[7] Section 1.2.1—17
Omit ‘*caterer’ (second occurrence), substitute ‘caterer’
Standard 1.2.5 – Information requirements – date marking of food for sale
[8] Subparagraph 1.2.5—3(1)(b)(i)
Omit ‘best-before date’, substitute ‘*best-before date’
[9] Subsubparagraph 1.2.5—3(1)(b)(ii)(A)
Omit ‘*best-before date’, substitute ‘best-before date’
Standard 1.2.7 – Nutrition, health and related claims
[10] Section 1.2.7—2 (Note 1, definition of nutrient profiling score)
Omit ‘section 1.2.7—26’, substitute ‘section 1.2.7—25’
[11] Subsections 1.2.7—4(1) and (2)
Omit ‘*nutrition content claim’, substitute ‘nutrition content claim’
[12] Subsections 1.2.7—12(2) and (3)
Omit ‘*claim’, substitute ‘claim’
[13] Subsections 1.2.7—12(5), (6) and (7)
Omit ‘*nutrition content claim’, substitute ‘nutrition content claim’
[14] Subsection 1.2.7—13(1)
Omit ‘*nutrition content claim’, substitute ‘nutrition content claim’
[15] Subsection 1.2.7—14(1)
Omit ‘*nutrition content claim’, substitute ‘nutrition content claim’
[16] Section 1.2.7—15
Omit ‘*nutrition content claim’, substitute ‘nutrition content claim’
[17] Section 1.2.7—16 (first (unnumbered) subsection)
Substitute
(1) A comparative claim about a food (claimed food) must include together with the claim:
(a) the identity of the *reference food; and
(b) the difference between the amount of the *property of food in the claimed food and the reference food.
[18] Paragraph 1.2.7—18(1)(a)
Omit ‘meets the NPSC’, substitute ‘*meets the NPSC’
Standard 1.2.8 – Nutrition information requirements
[19] Section 1.2.8—2 (first Note)
Omit ‘Note’, substitute ‘Note 1’.
[20] Section 1.2.8—4 (first Note)
Omit ‘Note’, substitute ‘Note 1’.
[21] Paragraph 1.2.8—6(5)(b)
Omit ‘*sugars’, substitute ‘sugars’.
[22] Subsection 1.2.8—6(9)
Omit ‘nutrition information panel’, substitute ‘*nutrition information panel’.
Standard 1.2.10 – Information requirements – characterising ingredients and components of food
[23] Subsection 1.2.10—3(2)
Omit ‘characterising ingredient’, substitute ‘*characterising ingredient’
Standard 1.2.11 – Information requirements—country of origin labelling
[24] Paragraph 1.2.11—3(1)(a)
Omit ‘*fruit’, substitute ‘fruit’
Standard 1.3.3 – Processing aids
[25] Paragraph 1.3.3—3(a)
Omit ‘processing aid’, substitute ‘a processing aid’
Standard 1.4.1 – Contaminants and natural toxicants
[26] After section 1.4.1—3
Insert the following section
1.4.1—4 Exception relating to honey and comb honey
(1) Section 1.1.1—9 does not apply to honey and comb honey for the purposes of section 1.4.1—3.
(2) Despite section 1.4.1—3, honey and comb honey that was packaged for retail sale before the commencement of the Food Standards (Proposal P1029 – Maximum Level for Tutin in Honey) Variation is taken to comply with the level of Tutin listed in the table to section S19—6 if the product otherwise complied with the Code before that variation commenced.
Standard 1.5.2 – Food produced using gene technology
[26] Section 1.5.2—2 (first Note)
Omit ‘Note’, substitute ‘Note 1’
Standard 1.5.3 – Irradiation of food
[28] Subsection 1.5.3—3(2) (table)
Insert in the appropriate alphabetical positions:
apple
apricot
cherry
honeydew
nectarine
peach
plum
rockmelon
scallopini
strawberry
table grape
zucchini (courgette)
Standard 1.6.1 – Microbiological limits in food
[29] Section 1.6.1—1
Omit ‘Microbiological limits for foods’, substitute ‘Microbiological limits in food’
[30] Paragraph 1.6.1—2(a)
Omit ‘S27—3’, substitute ‘S27—4’.
[31] Subsection 1.6.1—3(5)
Omit ‘the Schedule’, substitute ‘the table to section S27—4’
[32] Subsection 1.6.1—4(1)
Omit ‘the Schedule’, substitute ‘the table to section S27—4’
[33] Subsection 1.6.1—4(2)
Omit ‘the Schedule’, substitute ‘the table to section S27—4’
Standard 2.2.1 – Meat and meat products
[34] Section 2.2.1—1 (heading)
Omit the heading, substitute
2.2.1—1 Name
Standard 2.6.2 – Non-alcoholic beverages and brewed soft drinks
[35] Section 2.6.2—3 (Note at the end)
Repeal the Note
Standard 2.8.1 – Sugar and sugar products
[36] Section 2.8.1—1
Omit ‘Sugars and honey’, substitute ‘Sugar and sugar products’
Standard 2.9.2 – Food for infants
[37] Paragraph 2.9.2—8(1)(b)
Omit ‘more than of 3 g’, substitute ‘more than 3 g’
Standard 2.9.3 – Formulated supplementary sports foods
[38] Section 2.9.3—2 (Note 2)
Repeal the Note
[39] Paragraph 2.9.3—8(3)(a)
Omit the paragraph, substitute:
(a) the vitamin or mineral is listed in section S17—2, S17—3 or S29—15; and
Standard 2.9.4 – Formulated supplementary sports foods
[40] Paragraph 2.9.4—5(2)(a)
After ‘(expressed’, insert ‘as’
[41] Paragraph 2.9.4—6(2)(a)
After ‘*RDI’, insert ‘or *ESADDI’
Standard 2.9.5 – Food for special medical purposes
[42] Paragraph 2.9.5—3(a)
Omit ‘or Standard 1.1A.2 (transitional standard for health claims)’
Schedule 3 – Identity and purity
[43] Subparagraph S3—27(2)(b)(ii)
Omit ‘campsteranol’, substitute ‘campestanol’
Schedule 14 – Technological purposes performed by substances used as food additives
[44] Section S14—2 (table) (definition of firming agent)
Omit ‘interact’, substitute ‘interacts’
[45] Section S14—2 (table) (definition of raising agent)
Omit ‘increase’, substitute ‘increases’
Schedule 15 – Substances that may be used as food additives
[46] Section S15—5 (table) (after item 5.2.2)
Insert the following item heading
5.3 Not assigned
[47] Section S15—5 (table) (item 9.4.1 Canned abalone (paua))
Insert in appropriate numerical position
Sodium hydrosulphite
1 000
[48] Section S15—5 (table) (item 13.3 – heading)
Omit the heading, substitute
13.3 Formulated meal replacements and formulated supplementary foods
Schedule 17 – Vitamins and minerals
[49] Schedule Heading (Note 1)
Omit
● lists vitamins and minerals for the definition of claimable vitamin or mineral in subsection 2.9.3—6(6) and subsection 2.9.3—8(7).
Substitute
● lists vitamins and minerals for which claims may be made under subsections 2.9.3—6(3) and 2.9.3—8(3).
Schedule 18 – Processing aids
[50] Subsection S18—4(5) (table) (item Aspergillopepsin I (EC 3.4.23.6))
Omit ‘Aspergillopepsin I (EC 3.4.23.6)’, substitute ‘Aspergillopepsin I (EC 3.4.23.18)’
[51] Subsection S18—4(5) (table)
Insert the following items in the appropriate alphabetical positions
Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8)
Aspergillus niger
Aspergillus oryzae
Aspergillus oryzae, containing the gene for Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase isolated from Aspergillus aculeatus
Aspergillus oryzae, containing the gene for Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase isolated from Thermomyces lanuginosus
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Bacillus subtilis
Humicola insolens
Trichoderma reesei
Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase, protein engineered variant (EC 3.2.1.8)
Bacillus licheniformis, containing the gene for Endo-1,4-beta-xylanase isolated from Bacillus licheniformis
[52] Subsection S18—4(5) (table) (item Hemicellulase endo-1,4-β-xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8))
Omit the item
Schedule 19 – Maximum levels of contaminants and natural toxicants
[53] Section S19—2
Insert in the appropriate alphabetical position
honey includes comb honey.
[54] Section S19—2
Add at the end the following Note
Note In this Code (see section 1.1.2—3):
honey means the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of blossoms or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which honey bees collect, transform and combine with specific substances of their own, store and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature.
[55] Subsection S19—6(2) (table)
Insert in the appropriate alphabetical position
Tutin
Honey
0.7
[56] Subsection S19—6(2)
Add at the end (after the table) the following Note
Note The New Zealand Food (Tutin in Honey) Standard 2010 also regulates beekeepers, packers and exporters of honey in New Zealand. It provides options for demonstrating compliance with the maximum level for tutin in honey set by section 1.4.1—3.
Schedule 27 – Microbiological limits for foods
[57] Heading to the Schedule
Omit ‘for foods’, substitute ‘in food’
[58] Heading to the Schedule (Note 1)
Omit ‘for foods’, substitute ‘in food’
[59] Section S27—1
Omit ‘for foods’, substitute ‘in food’
[60] Section S27—4 (heading)
Omit ‘for foods’, substitute ‘in food’
[61] Section S27—4 (heading of table)
Omit ‘in foods’, substitute ‘in food’
[62] Section S27—4 (table)
(a) Omit the item ‘Butter made from unpasteurised milk and/or unpasteurised milk products’
(b) Omit the item ‘All raw milk cheese (cheese made from milk not pasteurised or thermised)’
(c) Omit the item ‘Raw milk unripened cheeses (moisture content > 50% with pH > 5.0) mixed tart’
(d) After the item ‘All cheese’, insert the following item
Raw milk cheese
Salmonella
5
0
not detected in 25 g
Staphylococcal enterotoxins
5
0
not detected in 25 g
(e) Omit the item ‘Unpasteurised milk for retail sale’, substitute the following item
Unpasteurised milk for retail sale
Campylobacter
5
0
not detected in 25 mL
Coliforms
5
1
102/mL
103/mL
Escherichia coli
5
1
3/mL
9/mL
Salmonella
5
0
not detected in 25 mL
SPC
5
1
2.5x104/mL
2.5x105/mL
(f) In the item ‘Cooked crustacea’, omit ‘SPC/g’ and substitute ‘SPC’
(g) In the item ‘Ready-to-eat food in which the growth of Listeria monocytogenes can occur’, omit ‘102cfu/g’ and substitute ‘not detected in 25 g’
(h) In the item ‘Ready-to-eat food in which the growth of Listeria monocytogenes will not occur’, omit ‘not detected in 25 g’ and substitute ‘102cfu/g’
(i) Omit the item ‘Powdered infant formula products’ and substitute the following item
Powdered infant formula products
Bacillus cereus
5
0
102/g
Coagulase-positive staphylococci
5
1
not detected in 1 g
10/g
Coliforms
5
2
less than 3/g
10/g
Salmonella
10
0
not detected in 25 g
SPC
5
2
103/g
104/g
Schedule 29 – Special purpose foods
[63] Section S29—10
Omit subsection S27-10(3) and substitute
(3) It is recommended that the nutrition information table be set out in the format specified in the table to this section.
NUTRITION INFORMATION
Average amount per 100 mL made up formula (see Note 1)
Average amount per 100 g of powder (or per 100 mL for liquid concentrate) (see Note 2)
Energy
kJ
kJ
Protein
g
g
Fat
g
g
Carbohydrate
g
g
Vitamin A
μg
μg
Vitamin B6
μg
μg
Vitamin B12
μg
μg
Vitamin C
mg
mg
Vitamin D
μg
μg
Vitamin E
μg
μg
Vitamin K
μg
μg
Biotin
μg
μg
Niacin
mg
mg
Folate
μg
μg
Pantothenic acid
μg
μg
Riboflavin
μg
μg
Thiamin
μg
μg
Calcium
mg
mg
Copper
μg
μg
Iodine
μg
μg
Iron
mg
mg
Magnesium
mg
mg
Manganese
μg
μg
Phosphorus
mg
mg
Selenium
μg
μg
Zinc
mg
mg
Chloride
mg
mg
Potassium
mg
mg
Sodium
mg
mg
(insert any other substance used as a nutritive substance or inulin-type fructans and galacto-oligosaccharides to be declared)
g, mg, μg
g, mg, μg
Note 1 Delete the words ‘made up formula’ in the case of formulas sold in ‘ready to drink’ form.
Note 2 Delete this column in the case of formulas sold in ‘ready to drink’ form.
