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

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

[47] Section S15—5 (table) (item 9.4.1 Canned abalone (paua))

Insert in appropriate numerical position

[48] Section S15—5 (table) (item 13.3 – heading)

Omit the heading, substitute

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

[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

[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

 (e) Omit the item ‘Unpasteurised milk for retail sale’, substitute the following item

 (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

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.

 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.