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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 7 Food additive class names (for statement of ingredients)

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.

 Standard 1.2.4 is a standard for the information requirements relating to the statement of ingredients, and contains provisions relating to, among other things, substances used as food additives. This Standard lists classes of food additives for paragraph 1.2.4—7(1)(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.

S7—1 Name

  This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Schedule 7 Food additive class names (for statement of ingredients).

 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.

S7—2 Food additive class names

  For paragraph 1.2.4—7(1)(a), the class names of food additives are as follows:

Class names of food additives

Prescribed class names

Optional class names

acid

antifoaming agent

acidity regulator

emulsifying salt

alkali

enzyme

anticaking agent

mineral salt

antioxidant

modified starch

bulking agent

vegetable gum

colour

 

emulsifier

 

firming agent

 

flavour enhancer

 

foaming agent

 

gelling agent

 

glazing agent

 

humectant

 

preservative

 

raising agent

 

stabiliser

 

sweetener

 

thickener

 

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