The following instruments are separate instruments in the Federal Register of Legislation and are known collectively in the Food Standards Gazette as Amendment No. 229

Standard 2.8.3 – Native bee honey

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 the date of gazettal.

Dated: 12 July 2024.

MATTHEW O’MULLANE, General Manager Risk Management and Intelligence, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

Standard 2.8.3 Native bee honey

Division 1 Preliminary

2.8.3—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 2.8.3 – Native bee honey.

Note Commencement:

This Standard commences on the date of gazettal, 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.

2.8.3—2 Definitions

Note: In this Code (see subsection 1.1.2—3(2) of Standard 1.1.2):

Native bee honey means the natural sweet substance produced by Australian native stingless bees from the genera Tetragonula or Austroplebeia following the collection of nectar from the blossoms of plants.

Division 2 Requirements for food sold as native bee honey

2.8.3—3 Composition

A food that is sold as native bee honey must:

(a) be native bee honey; and

(b) contain:

(i) no less than 50% reducing sugars; and

(ii) no more than 28% moisture; and

(iii) no less than 2% trehalulose.

2.8.3—4 Labelling of native bee honey

For the labelling provisions:

(a) ‘honey’ is a *prescribed name for native bee honey; and

(b) the *prescribed name must be presented in conjunction with a description that adequately describes the true nature of native bee honey.

Examples ‘Native bee honey’, ‘Native stingless bee honey’, ‘Australian native bee honey’

Note The labelling provisions are set out in Standard 1.2.1.

Food Standards (Application A1257 – Australian native bee honey – Consequential Amendments) 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.

Dated: 12 July 2024.

MATTHEW O’MULLANE, General Manager Risk Management and Intelligence, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Application A1257 – Australian native bee honey – Consequential Amendments) Variation.

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

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

3 Commencement

The variation commences on the date of gazettal.

Schedule

[1] Standard 1.1.1 Structure of the Code and general provisions

Subsection 1.1.1—2(2) (heading ‘Part 2.8 Sugars and honey’, after the entry relating to ‘Honey’)

Insert:

2.8.3 Native bee honey

[2] Standard 1.1.2 Definitions used throughout the Code

Subsection 1.1.2—3(2)

Insert:

Native bee honey means the natural sweet substance produced by Australian native stingless bees from the genera Tetragonula or Austroplebeia following the collection of nectar from the blossoms of plants.

[3] Standard 1.2.2 Information requirements – food identification

Subsection 1.2.2—2(1) (Note 2, subparagraph (xii))

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

(xii) ‘honey’ (Standards 2.8.2 and 2.8.3);

[4] Standard 2.9.2 Food for infants

[4.1] Paragraph 2.9.2—3(1)(b)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(b) the following types of food unless the food has been treated to inactivate Clostridium botulinum spores:

(i) honey;

(ii) native bee honey; or

[4.2] Paragraphs 2.9.2—7(3)(d) and (e)

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

(d) the word ‘sweetened’—if the food contains more than 4 g/100 g in total of monosaccharide and disaccharide from one or more of the following sources:

(i) added sugars;

(ii) honey;

(iii) native bee honey; and

(e) the word ‘sterilised’ in association with the word ‘honey’—if any of the following food has been used as an ingredient:

(i) honey;

(ii) native bee honey.

[5] Schedule 4 Nutrition, health and related claims

Section S4—3 (table item related to ‘Sugar or sugars’, descriptor of ‘No added’ in column 3, paragraph (e) in column 4, subparagraphs (xi) – (xiii))

Repeal the subparagraphs, substitute:

[6] Schedule 22 Foods and classes of foods

Section S22—4 (heading ‘Honey and other miscellaneous primary food commodities of animal origin’, after the statement dealing with the portion of honey to which the MRL and ERL apply (and which is analysed))

Insert:

Native bee honey

Commodity: Native bee honey.

Portion of the commodity to which the MRL and ERL apply (and which is analysed): whole commodity.

Food Standards (Application A1280 – Food derived from herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line DAS1131) 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 the variation.

Dated: 12 July 2024.

CHRISTEL LEEMHUIS, Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Application A1280 – Food derived from herbicide-tolerant and insect-protected corn line DAS1131) 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.

Schedule

Schedule 26—Food produced using gene technology

[1] Subsection S26—3(4) (table item 2, column headed “Food derived from:”)

Insert: