Food Standards (Proposal P1025 – Code Revision) Variation
 
 
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.
 
Schedule 24           Restricted plants and fungi
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.
                   Restricted plants and fungi are regulated by paragraphs 1.1.1—10(3)(a) and (4)(e) and Standard 1.4.4.This Standard lists plants and fungi for the definition of restricted plant or fungus in section 1.1.2—3.
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.
S24—1                Name
                            This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 24 – Restricted plants and fungi.
                                      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.
S24—2                Restricted plants and fungi
                            For paragraph (a) of the definition of restricted plant or fungus in section 1.1.2—3, the plants and fungi are:
Restricted plants and fungi
Species name
Common name
Natural toxicant

Artemisia absinthium
Common wormwood
Thujone, santonin

Artemisia cina Berg
Levant wormseed
Thujone, santonin

Artemisia maritima
Levant wormseed
Thujone, santonin

Artemisia vulgaris
Mugwort
Thujone, santonin

Chrysanthemum balsamita
Costmary
Thujone

Chrysanthemum parthenium (see Tanacetum parthenium)
 
 

Cinchona spp.
Cinchona
Quinine

Cinnamomum camphora
Camphor tree oil
Safrole, coumarin

Cinnamomum micranthum
Micranthum oil
Safrole, coumarin

Hedeoma pulegioides oil
American pennyroyal
Pulegone

 
White snakeroot oil
 

Hypericum perforatum
St John's wort
Hypericine

Mentha pulegium oil
European pennyroyal oil
Pulegone

Sassafras albidum
American sassafras oil
Safrole

Sassafras officinale (see Sassafras albidum)
 
 

Tanacetum balsamita (see Chrysanthemum balsamita)
 
 

Tanacetum parthenium
Feverfew
Santonin

Tanacetum vulgare
Tansy oil
Thujone

Thuja occidentalis
Thuja, White cedar
Thujone

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