Food Standards (Application A1253 – Bovine Lactoferrin in Infant Formula Products) 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 17 April 2023

Dr Nick Fletcher

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand 

1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Application A1253 – Bovine Lactoferrin in Infant Formula Products) 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

Standard 2.9.1—Infant formula products

[1] Paragraph 2.9.1—5(1)(b)

 Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(b) the amount of the substance in the product (including any naturally-occurring amount) is no more than the corresponding amount listed in Column 4 of the table; and

(c) it complies with any conditions listed in section S29—5A in relation to that substance.

Schedule 3—Identity and purity

[2] Subsection S3—2(2) (table)

 Insert:

[3] After section S3—45

 Insert:

S3—46  Specification for bovine lactoferrin

(1)           In this section, bovine lactoferrin is a protein derived from cow’s milk and consisting of a single polypeptide chain of 689 amino acids.

 (2) For bovine lactoferrin, the specifications are the following:

(a) description—a pink to reddish brown coloured, free-flowing powder;

(b) protein (N x 6.38)—more than 93.0%;

(c) purity—more than 95.0%;

(d) moisture—less than 4.5 g/100 g;

(e) ash—not more than 1.5 g/100 g;

(f) iron—not more than 35 mg/100 g;

(g) pH (2% solution)—5.2 to 7.2;

(h) solubility transmittance (2% solution, 20°C)—transparent;

(i) lead—not more than 1 mg/kg;

(j) microbial limits:

(i) Salmonella spp.—absent in 25 g;

(ii) Listeria monocytogenes—–absent in 25 g;

(iii) Cronobacter spp.—–absent in 10 g.

Schedule 29—Special purpose foods

[4] Section S29—5 (table)

 Insert:

[5] After section S29—5

 Insert:

S29—5A Infant formula products—conditions on use of permitted nutritive substances

(1)                              A substance that is:

(a)    listed in Column 1 of the table to subsection (2); and

(b)    in a permitted form listed in Column 2 of that table for that substance;

must comply with any corresponding conditions specified in Column 3 of that table for that permitted form.

(2) The table for this subsection is:

Conditions of use for permitted nutritive substances