Amendment No. 42 to the Food Standards Code Australia New Zealand Food Authority Variations to the Food Standards Code (Amendment No. 42) 1. Preamble The variations set forth in the Schedule below are variations to the Food Standards Code (hereinafter called ``the Code'') which was published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. P 27, on 27 August 1987, and which has been varied from time to time. The Schedule contains variations adopted by the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council in December 1998. These variations are published pursuant to section 32 of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991. 2. Citation These variations may be collectively known as Amendment No. 42 to the Code. 3. Commencement These variations commence on the date of publication of this Gazette. Item 1. will cease to have effect on 13 February 2000. Schedule 1. Standard A1 is varied by omitting the table to subclause (19) (e) and substituting Table to Subclause (19) (e) Permitted Health Claims Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Food Eligibility Criteria [la3,4] Amounts specified are per each serving as specified in the nutrition information panel Permitted Claim PRIMARY FOODS: [la3,4] Eggs Eggs [la3,4] Fruit Avocado Grapefruit Orange [la3,4] Legumes McKenzie's Borlotti Beans McKenzie's Cannellini Beans McKenzie's Chick Peas McKenzie's Dried (Whole Green) Peas McKenzie's Green Split Peas McKenzie's Haricot Beans McKenzie's Italian Style Soup Mix McKenzie's Lima Beans McKenzie's Red Kidney Beans McKenzie's Soya Beans McKenzie's Whole Green Lentils McKenzie's Yellow Split Peas Primary foods as defined in Standard A9 [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate. [la3,4] Other foods [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate and not more than (A) 14 g fat, of which no more than 5 g is saturated fat; (B) 500 mg sodium; and (C) 10 g in total of added sugars and honey. A claim which states (a) that increased maternal folate consumption in at least the month before and 3 months following conception may reduce the risk of fetal neural tube defects; and (b) the recommendation that women consume a minimum of 400 micrograms folate per day in at least the month before and at least the first 3 months following conception. [la3,4] Nuts Peanuts [la3,4] Vegetables Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower English Spinach Green beans Lettuce Mushrooms Parsnip Zucchini Sweet corn Primary foods as defined in Standard A9 [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate. [la3,4] Other foods [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate and not more than (A) 14 g fat, of which no more than 5 g is saturated fat; (B) 500 mg sodium; and (C) 10 g in total of added sugars and honey. A claim which states (a) that increased maternal folate consumption in at least the month before and 3 months following conception may reduce the risk of fetal neural tube defects; and (b) the recommendation that women consume a minimum of 400 micrograms folate per day in at least the month before and at least the first 3 months following conception. [la6,4] PROCESSED FOODS [la3,4] Bread Burgen Sunflower Barley and Sunflower Seed Loaf Burgen High Bake Heritage Rye Burgen High Bake Heritage White Burgen High Bake Heritage Granary Malt Burgen High Bake Heritage Soy and Linseed Burgen High Bake Heritage Wholemeal Burgen Mixed Grain Loaf Burgen Mixed Grain Fruit Loaf Burgen Oat Bran and Honey Loaf Burgen Traditional Rye Loaf Burgen Soy-Lin Loaf Pro-Rol Swiss Maid Tip Top English Muffins Tip Top Holsom's Wholemeal Tip Top Holsom's Wholemeal Toast Tip Top Holsom's Wholemeal with Wheatgerm Tip Top Holsom's Wholemeal with Wheatgerm Toast Tip Top Hyfibe White Tip Top Hyfibe White Muffins Tip Top Hyfibe White Thick Tip Top Multigrain Tip Top Multigrain 9 Grain Tip Top Multigrain 9 Grain Muffins Tip Top Multigrain 9 Grain Toast Tip Top Multigrain Muffins Tip Top Multigrain Toast Tip Top Pro-Rol Thick Tip Top Sunblest Thick Tip Top Sunblest Sandwich Tip Top The White Stuff Tip Top The White Stuff Muffins Uncle Tobys Vitagold Bread Uncle Tobys Energy White Bread Uncle Tobys GrainsPlus Bread [la3,4] Cereals Goodman Fielder Nature's Gold Jackaroo Flour Kellogg's All Bran Kellogg's All Bran Fruit 'n Oats Kellogg's Bran Flakes Kellogg's Corn Flakes Kellogg's Golden Wheats Kellogg's Guardian Kellogg's Just Right Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Apricot Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Blackcurrant Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Strawberry Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Whole Wheat Kellogg's Special K Kellogg's Sultana Bran Lowan Flake Medley with Wild Berries Sanitarium Cornflakes * Sanitarium Fruity Bix - Apricot * Sanitarium Fruity Bix - Tropical * Sanitarium Fruity Bix - Wild Berry * Primary foods as defined in Standard A9 [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate. [la3,4] Other foods [la3,4] Contains at least 40 micrograms folate and not more than (A) 14 g fat, of which no more than 5 g is saturated fat; (B) 500 mg sodium; and (C) 10 g in total of added sugars and honey. A claim which states (a) that increased maternal folate consumption in at least the month before and 3 months following conception may reduce the risk of fetal neural tube defects; and (b) the recommendation that women consume a minimum of 400 micrograms folate per day in at least the month before and at least the first 3 months following conception. Sanitarium Good Start * Sanitarium Light 'n Tasty Sanitarium Lite-Bix * Sanitarium Weet-Bix Sanitarium Weet-Bix HiBran Soy & Linseed Sanitarium Weet-Bix plus Oat Bran Uncle Tobys Lite Start Breakfast Bars Uncle Tobys Lite Start Breakfast Cereal [la3,4] Fruit/Vegetables Golden Circle Kernel Corn Golden Circle Sliced & Baby Beetroot [la3,4] Juices Berri Orange Juice (Long Life) - No Added Sugar Berri Orange Juice (Long Life) - Premium Berri Pure N' Fresh (Chilled Orange Juice) Golden Circle Cloudy Apple Juice Golden Circle Orange Juice Golden Circle Pineapple Juice Just Juice Apple Just Juice Orange Quelch Just Squeezed Orange [la3,4] Soy Products Soy Feast Soy & Corn Fritters [la3,4] Extracts Sanitarium Marmite [la3,4] * approved pending folate fortification 2. Standard A11 is varied by 2.1 inserting into columns 1 and 2 respectively of the Schedule Thrombin FCC p107 (enzyme preparations); 2.2 inserting into columns 1 and 2 respectively of the Schedule Transglutaminase FCC p107 (enzyme preparations). 3. Standard A14 is varied by 3.1 inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1 each chemical (shown in bold type) and its associated food and maximum residue limit for that food, listed below Chemical Food MRL [tn,2] [la3,4] Captan Edible offal (mammalian) 0.05 Grapes 10 Meat (mammalian) 0.05 Milks 0.01 Pome fruits 10 Stone fruits 20 Strawberry 25 [la3,4] Fipronil Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 0.05 Mushrooms 0.02 Rice 0.005 [la3,4] Fludioxonil Grapes 2 [la3,4] Fluquinconazole Apple 0.5 Pear 0.5 [la3,4] Halosulfuron-methyl Cotton seed 0.05 Edible offal (mammalian) 0.2 Maize 0.05 Meat (mammalian) 0.01 Milks 0.01 Poultry, edible offal 0.01 Poultry meat 0.01 Sorghum 0.1 Sugar cane 0.05 [la3,4] Isoeugenol Diadromous fish (whole commodity) 100 Freshwater fish (whole commodity) 100 Marine fish (whole commodity) 100 [la3,4] Praziquantel Sheep, edible offal of 0.05 Sheep meat 0.05 [la3,4] Spinosad Cotton seed 0.01 [la3,4] Tebufenozide Dried grapes 8 Pome fruits 2; 3.2 inserting in columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1, in relation to each chemical shown in bold type below, the food and the maximum residue limit for that food listed below Chemical Food MRL [tn,2] [la3,4] Bifenthrin Egg Plant 0.5 Okra 0.5 Peppers, sweet capsicums 0.5 [la3,4] Chlorfenapyr Edible offal (mammalian) 0.1 Eggs 0.01 Meat (mammalian) in the fat 0.1 Poultry, edible offal of 0.01 Poultry meat in the fat 0.02 [la3,4] Chlorpropham Garlic 0.05 Onions, bulb 0.05 [la3,4] Chlorpyrifos Celery 5 [la3,4] Chlorpyrifos-methyl Cotton seed 0.05 [la3,4] Cyfluthrin Egg Plant 0.2 Okra 0.2 Peppers, sweet capsicums 0.2 [la3,4] Cyprodinil Grapes 2 [la3,4] Dichlorvos Rice bran, unprocessed 10 [la3,4] Difenoconazole Edible offal (mammalian) 0.05 Eggs 0.05 Meat (mammalian) 0.05 Milks 0.01 Poultry meat 0.05 Poultry, edible offal of 0.05 [la3,4] Dimethoate Peaches 5 [la3,4] Fenarimol Currant, black 0.1 [la3,4] Fenoxycarb Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 0.5 [la3,4] Fluvalinate Table grapes 0.05 [la3,4] Glufosinate and Glufosinate ammonium Berries and other small fruits 0.1 Citrus fruits 0.1 Edible offal (mammalian) 5 Meat (mammalian) 0.1 Tree nuts 0.1 Tropical and sub-tropical fruit-inedible peel 0.2 [la3,4] Iprodione Taro 0.05 [la3,4] Mevinphos Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 0.25 [la3,4] Oxyfluorfen Cotton seed 0.05 [la3,4] Phosphorous acid Cucurbits 25 Raspberries 50 Walnuts 50 [la3,4] Pirimicarb Cotton seed 0.05 Cotton seed oil, crude 0.1 [la3,4] Procymidone Strawberry 5 [la3,4] Propiconazole Mint oil 0.2 [la3,4] Tebuconazole Onion, bulb 0.01 Papaya (Pawpaws) 0.2 Peas 0.5 [la3,4] Tridemorph Banana 0.05; 3.3 omitting from columns 1 and 2 respectively of Schedule 1, in relation to each chemical shown in bold type below, the food and the maximum residue limit for that food listed below Chemical Food MRL [tn,2] [la3,4] Glufosinate and Glufosinate-ammonium Banana 0.2 Grapes 0.2 [la3,4] Mevinphos Cotton seed 0.1 Eggs 0.05 Milks 0.05 Pome fruits 0.25 Poultry, edible offal of 0.05 Poultry meat 0.05 Stone fruits 0.25 Vegetables 0.25 [la3,4] Procymidone Peanut 0.1; 3.4 omitting from column 2 of Schedule 1 the maximum residue limit in relation to each chemical shown in bold type and each food shown below, and substituting the maximum residue limit shown below Chemical Food MRL [tn,2] [la3,4] Chlorpropham Potato 30 [la3,4] Chlorpyrifos Cotton seed oil, crude 0.2 Vegetables (except asparagus, brassica, cassava, celery, potato, tomato) 0.01 [la3,4] Diafenthiuron Brassica (cole or cabbage) vegetables 0.5 [la3,4] Difenoconazole Pome fruits 0.3 [la3,4] Dimethoate Fruits except strawberry, litchi and peaches 5 [la3,4] Fenthion Stone fruits 5 [la3,4] Imidacloprid Cotton seed 0.02 [la3,4] Metolachlor Rape seed 0.02 [la3,4] Procymidone Edible offal (mammalian) 0.01 Eggs 0.01 Meat of cattle, pigs and sheep (in the fat) 0.01 Milks 0.01 Poultry, edible offal of 0.01 Poutry meat (in the fat) 0.01; 3.5 omitting Vegetables (except asparagus; brassica vegetables; cassava; potato; tomato) from column 1 of Schedule 1 in relation to the chemical Chlorpyrifos and substituting Vegetables (except asparagus; brassica vegetables; cassava; celery; potato; tomato); 3.6 omitting Oilseed from column 1 of Schedule 1 in relation to the chemical Chlorpyrifos and substituting Oilseed (except cotton seed); 3.7 omitting Fruit except strawberry and litchi from column 1 of Schedule 1 in relation to the chemical Dimethoate and substituting Fruit except strawberry, litchi and peaches]; and 3.8 inserting in Schedule 3, under the heading CROP COMMODITIES, subheading VEGETABLES, new commodities specified below in relation to the categories specified Category New Commodity [la3,4] Leafy vegetables (including brassica leafy vegetables) Parsley. 4. Standard A16 is varied by 4.1 inserting into columns 1 and 2 respectively of Group I of Table IV of the Schedule - Thrombin 3.4.21.5. Bovine or porcine blood; and (2) inserting into columns 1 and 2 respectively of Group III of Table IV of the Schedule Transglutaminase EC 2.3.2.13. Streptoverticillium mobaraense. 5. Standard C1 is varied by 5.1 inserting after clause 57 Labelling of raw meat products manufactured using fresh meat binding systems 57A The label on or attached to a package containing raw meat joined using a binding system without the application of heat, must include cooking instructions indicating how the microbiological safety of the product can be achieved; and 5.2 omitting or 57, substituting, 57 or 57A in clause 58 (1) (b). 6. Standard D1 is varied by deleting clause (9), and inserting (9) (1) The label on or attached to a package containing raw fish joined using a binding system without the application of heat, must include cooking instructions indicating how the microbiological safety of the product can be achieved. [sp'(09) '](2) If a raw fish product joined using a binding system without the application of heat, is offered for sale other than in a package, any word or words that would if the food were packaged, be required by subclause (9)(1) to be included in the label on or attached to the package, must be displayed in connection with the food in type of not less than 9 mm. 7. Standard R9 is varied by inserting in columns 2 and 3 respectively of the Schedule, in relation to the entry in column 1 for ``Supplemented drink base and supplemented drink'' folate 100 g.