Food Standards (Application A1243 – Harmonisation of marine biotoxin standards for bivalve shellfish) 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.

12 January 2024

Signature of the Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Owen Walsh, Section Manager – Standards Management

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note:

This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 165 on 19 January 2024. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of clause 3 of the variation.

1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Application A1243 – Harmonisation of marine biotoxin standards for bivalve shellfish) Variation.

2 Variation to a Standard in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code

The Schedule varies a Standard in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

3 Commencement

The variation commences on the date of gazettal.

4. Effect of the variations made by this instrument

(1) Section 1.1.1—9 of Standard 1.1.1 does not apply to the variations made by this instrument.

(2) During the transition period, a food product may be sold if the product complies with one of the following:

(a) the Code as in force without the variations made by this instrument; or

(b) the Code as amended by the variations made by this instrument.

(3) For the purposes of this clause, transition period means the period commencing on the instrument’s date of commencement and ending 12 months after the date of commencement.

Schedule

Schedule 19—Maximum levels of contaminants and natural toxicants

[1] Section S19—5 (cell at table item dealing with “Diarrhetic shellfish poisons (Okadaic acid equivalent)”, column headed “Maximum level”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

0.16

[2] Section S19—5 (cell at table item dealing with “Paralytic shellfish poisons (Saxitoxin equivalent)”, column headed “Contaminant”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Paralytic shellfish poisons (Saxitoxin dihydrochloride equivalent)