Standard 1.2.6
Directions for Use and Storage
Purpose
This Standard requires either directions for use and/or directions for storage of food, to be included on the label, where, for reasons of health and safety, the consumer should be informed of specific use or storage requirements.
Table of Provisions
1 Interpretation
2 Circumstances where food must be labelled with directions
Clauses
1 Interpretation
In this Standard -
use or storage includes use and storage.
2 Circumstances where food must be labelled with directions
The label on a package of food must include appropriate directions for the use or storage of the food, where the food is of a nature as to warrant such directions for reasons of health or safety.
Editorial note:
This clause operates in addition to clause 6 of Standard 1.2.5 which requires the label on a package of food to include a statement of the conditions of storage where this is necessary to ensure that the food will keep for the specified period indicated by the use-by date or best-before date.
Food Product Standards in Chapter 2 of this Code may contain directions for use and/or storage specific to that individual commodity.