Food Standards (Proposal P1035 – Gluten Claims about Foods containing Alcohol) 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. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of clause 3 of the variation.
 
 
1             Name
 
This instrument is the Food Standards (Proposal P1035 – Gluten Claims about Foods containing Alcohol) Variation.
 
2             Variation to Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
 
The Schedule varies Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
 
3             Commencement
 
The Variation commences on the date of gazettal.
 
SCHEDULE
 
[1]           Standard 1.2.7 is varied by omitting from paragraph 3(b) "energy content or carbohydrate content", and substituting "energy content, carbohydrate content or gluten content"
 
[2]           Standard 1.2.8 is varied by
 
[2.1]        inserting in subclause 1(1) in alphabetical order 
 
“prescribed beverage means –
 
(a)           an alcoholic beverage standardised in Standards 2.7.2 to 2.7.5; or
(b)          a beverage containing no less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.”
 
“prescribed beverage gluten free claim means a nutrition content claim in relation to gluten content of a prescribed beverage that uses the descriptor ‘free’ in conjunction with gluten, or a synonym of such a descriptor.”
 
[2.2]        insert after paragraph 4(1)(c)
 
“(ca)        a prescribed beverage gluten free claim; or”