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Schedule 24 – Restricted Plants and Fungi – Food Standards (Proposal P1025 – Code Revision) Variation—Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Amendment No. 154

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this standard under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.

The Standard commences on 1 March 2016.

Dated 25 March 2015

Standards Management Officer, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Note:

This Standard will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 96 on 10 April 2015.

Note 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.

Restricted plants and fungi are regulated by paragraphs 1.1.1—10(3)(a) and (4)(e) and Standard 1.4.4.This Standard lists plants and fungi for the definition of restricted plant or fungus in section 1.1.2—3.

Note 2 The provisions of the Code that apply in New Zealand are incorporated in, or adopted under, the Food Act 2014 (NZ). See also section 1.1.1—3.

S24—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 24 – Restricted plants and fungi.

Note Commencement: This Standard commences on 1 March 2016, being the date specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.

S24—2 Restricted plants and fungi

For paragraph (a) of the definition of restricted plant or fungus in section 1.1.2—3, the plants and fungi are:

Restricted plants and fungi

Species name Common name Natural toxicant
Artemisia absinthium Common wormwood Thujone, santonin
Artemisia cina Berg Levant wormseed Thujone, santonin
Artemisia maritima Levant wormseed Thujone, santonin
Artemisia vulgaris Mugwort Thujone, santonin
Chrysanthemum balsamita Costmary Thujone
Chrysanthemum parthenium (see Tanacetum parthenium)    
Cinchona spp. Cinchona Quinine
Cinnamomum camphora Camphor tree oil Safrole, coumarin
Cinnamomum micranthum Micranthum oil Safrole, coumarin
Hedeoma pulegioides oil American pennyroyal Pulegone
  White snakeroot oil  
Hypericum perforatum St John's wort Hypericine
Mentha pulegium oil European pennyroyal oil Pulegone
Sassafras albidum American sassafras oil Safrole
Sassafras officinale (see Sassafras albidum)    
Tanacetum balsamita (see Chrysanthemum balsamita)    
Tanacetum parthenium Feverfew Santonin
Tanacetum vulgare Tansy oil Thujone
Thuja occidentalis Thuja, White cedar Thujone