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Food Standards as amended, taking into account amendments up to Food Standards (Proposal P242 - Food for Special Medical Purposes - Consequential) Variation Amendment 2012 (No. 1)
Administered by: Health
Registered 29 Oct 2013
Start Date 21 Feb 2013
End Date 17 Oct 2014
Date of repeal 17 Oct 2014
Repealed by Spent and Redundant Instruments Repeal Regulation 2014 (No. 2)

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Food Standards (Proposal P242 – Food for Special Medical Purposes – Consequential) Variation

 

 

 

 

1             Name

 

This instrument is the Food Standards (Proposal P242 – Food for Special Medical Purposes – Consequential) 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

 

This variation commences on the date of gazettal of Food Standards (Proposal 1023 – Tutin, Tocopherols & Food for Special Medical Purposes Standards Amendments) Variation.

 

SCHEDULE

 

[1]           Standard 1.1.1 is varied by

 

[1.1]        inserting in clause 2 the following definitions in alphabetical order

 

food for special medical purposes has the meaning given by Standard 2.9.5.

 

small package means a package with a surface area of less than 100 cm2.

 

transportation outer means a container or wrapper which –

 

(a)           encases packaged or unpackaged foods for the purpose of transportation and distribution; and

(b)          is removed before the food is used or offered for retail sale, or is not taken away by the purchaser of the food.

 

[1.2]        omitting paragraph (e) from the definition of warning statement in clause 2, substituting

 

(e)           sub clauses 3(3) and 3(4) of Standard 2.9.4; and

(f)           subclause 10(4) of Standard 2.9.5.

 

[1.3]        inserting in alphabetical order in the Table to clause 8 –

 

MJ

Megajoule

 

[2]           Standard 1.1A.6 is varied by omitting subclause 2(3), substituting

 

(3)           This Standard ceases to have effect in relation to:

 

(a)          food for special medical purposes on the date of gazettal of Food Standards (Proposal 1023 – Tutin, Tocopherols & Food for Special Medical Purposes Standards Amendments) Variation; and

(b)          other special purposes food, including food formulated and represented as being for the dietary management of obesity or overweight, two years from the commencement of any alternative applicable provisions elsewhere in this Code.

[3]           Standard 1.2.1 is varied by omitting from clause 1 the definitions of small package and transportation outer

 

[4]           Standard 1.3.1 is varied by

 

[4.1]        omitting from Schedule 1, the heading to Item 13, substituting

 

13              SPECIAL PURPOSE FOODS

[4.2]        inserting in Schedule 1 after Item 13.4.2

 

13.5           Food for special medical purposes*

 

200 201 202 203

Sorbic acid and sodium, potassium and calcium sorbates

1500

mg/kg

 

 

 

210 211 212 213

Benzoic acid and sodium, potassium and calcium benzoates

1500

mg/kg

 

 

 

338

Phosphoric acid

GMP

 

 

Permitted for use as an acidity regulator

 

524

Sodium hydroxide

GMP

 

 

Permitted for use as an acidity regulator

 

525

Potassium hydroxide

GMP

 

 

Permitted for use as an acidity regulator

 

950

Acesulphame potassium

450

mg/kg

 

 

 

954

Saccharin

200

mg/kg

 

 

 

962

 

Aspartame-acesulphame salt

450

mg/kg

 

 

13.5.1        Liquid food for special medical purposes*

 

123

Amaranth

30

mg/kg

 

 

 

160b

 

Annatto extracts

10

mg/kg

 

 

13.5.2        Food for special medical purposes other than liquids*

 

123

Amaranth

300

mg/kg

 

 

 

160b

Annatto extracts

25

mg/kg

 

 

 

[5]           Standard 1.3.4 is varied by adding at the end of the Schedule –

 

Specification selenium-enriched yeast

 

Selenium-enriched yeasts are produced by culture in the presence of sodium selenite as a source of selenium. These yeasts contain selenium according to the following criteria –

 

Total selenium content

No more than 2.5 mg/kg of the dried form as marketed

 

 

Levels of organic selenium species (% total extracted selenium):

 

             Selenomethionine

No less than 60% and no more than 85%

             Other organic selenium compounds (including selenocysteine)

No more than 10%

Levels of inorganic selenium (% total extracted selenium)

No more than 1%

 


 

Amendment History

 

The Amendment History provides information about each amendment to the Instrument. The information includes commencement or cessation information for relevant amendments.

 

These amendments are made under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 unless otherwise indicated. Amendments do not have a specific date for cessation unless indicated as such.

 

About this compilation

 

This is a compilation of Food Standards (Proposal P242 – Food for Special Medical Purposes – Consequential) Variation as in force on 21 February 2013 (up to Amendment No. 139). It includes any commenced amendment affecting the compilation to that date.

 

Prepared by Food Standards Australia New Zealand on 21 February 2013.

 

Uncommenced amendments or provisions ceasing to have effect

 

To assist stakeholders, the effect of any uncommenced amendments or provisions which will cease to have effect, may be reflected in the Standard as shaded boxed text with the relevant commencement or cessation date. These amendments will be reflected in a compilation registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments including or omitting those amendments and provided in the Amendment History once the date is passed.

 

 

The following abbreviations may be used in the table below:

 

ad = added or inserted                                          am = amended

exp = expired or ceased to have effect                  rep = repealed

rs = repealed and substituted

 

Food Standards (Proposal P242 – Food for Special Medical Purposes – Consequential) Variation was published in the Food Standards Gazette No. FSC 74 on 28 June 2012 as part of Amendment 132 (F2012L01341 – 27 June 2012) and has been amended as follows:

 

Clause affected

A’ment No.

FRLI registration

Gazette

Commencement

(Cessation)

How affected

Description of amendment

3

139

F2013L00250

21 Feb 2013

FSC81

21 Feb 2013

 

21 Feb 2013

am

Commencement date brought forward from 28 June 2014 to 21 February 2013.

Item 2 of Sch

139

F2013L00250

21 Feb 2013

FSC81

21 Feb 2013

 

21 Feb 2013

rs

Consequential amendments to Standard 1.1A.6.