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.
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) |
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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) |
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Tanacetum balsamita (see Chrysanthemum balsamita) |
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Tanacetum parthenium | Feverfew | Santonin |
Tanacetum vulgare | Tansy oil | Thujone |
Thuja occidentalis | Thuja, White cedar | Thujone |
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