Amendment 101

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Amendment 101 contains amendments to the following Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code:

Standard 1.1.1 - Preliminary Provisions - Application, Interpretation and General Prohibitions
Standard 1.1A.2 - Transitional Standard for Health Claims
Standard 1.1A.6 - Transitional Standard for Special Purposes Foods (Including Amino Acid Modified Foods) (New Zealand only)
Standard 1.2.3 - Mandatory Warning and Advisory Statements and Declarations
Standard 1.2.4 - Labelling of Ingredients
Standard 1.2.5 - Date Marking of Food
Standard 1.2.6 - Directions for Use and Storage
Standard 1.2.8 - Nutrition Information Requirements
Standard 1.2.9 - Legibility Requirements
Standard 1.2.10 - Characterising Ingredients and Components of Food
Standard 1.2.11 - Country of Origin Requirements (Australia only)
Standard 1.3.1 - Food Additives
Standard 1.3.2 - Vitamins and Minerals
Standard 1.3.3 - Processing Aids
Standard 1.3.4 - Identity and Purity
Standard 1.4.2 - Maximum Residue Limits (Australia only)
Standard 1.5.1 - Novel Foods
Standard 1.5.2 - Food produced using Gene Technology
Standard 1.5.3 - Irradiation of Food
Standard 1.6.2 - Processing Requirements (Australia only)
Standard 2.1.1 - Cereals and Cereal Products
Standard 2.2.1 - Meat and Meat Products
Standard 2.2.3 - Fish and Fish Products
Standard 2.4.1 - Edible Oils
Standard 2.5.1 - Milk
Standard 2.5.2 - Cream
Standard 2.5.3 - Fermented Milk Products
Standard 2.5.4 - Cheese
Standard 2.5.5 - Butter
Standard 2.5.6 - Ice Cream
Standard 2.5.7 - Dried Milks, Evaporated Milks and Condensed Milks
Standard 2.6.1 - Fruit Juice and Vegetable Juice
Standard 2.6.2 - Non-Alcoholic Beverages and Brewed Soft Drinks
Standard 2.6.4 - Formulated Caffeinated Beverages
Standard 2.7.2 - Beer
Standard 2.7.3 - Fruit Wine and Vegetable Wine
Standard 2.7.4 - Wine and Wine Product
Standard 2.7.5 - Spirits
Standard 2.8.1 - Sugars
Standard 2.9.1 - Infant Formula Products
Standard 2.9.2 - Foods for Infants
Standard 2.9.3 - Formulated Meal Replacements and Formulated Supplementary Foods
Standard 2.10.1 - Vinegar and Related Products
Standard 2.10.2 - Salt and Salt Products
Standard 3.1.1 - Interpretation and Application
Standard 3.2.1 - Food Safety Programs (Australia only)
Standard 3.2.3 - Food Premises and Equipment (Australia only)
Standard 3.3.1 - Food Safety Programs for Food Service to Vulnerable Persons (Australia only)
Standard 4.2.1 - Primary Production and Processing Standard for Seafood (Australia only)
Standard 4.2.4 - Primary Production and Processing Standard for Dairy Products (Australia only)
Standard 4.2.4A - Primary Production and Processing Standard for Specific Cheeses (Australia only

The Applications and Proposal under which these amendments are made are as follows:

  • Application A566 - L-5-Methyltetrahydrofolate, Calcium as a Permitted Vitamin Form of Folate
  • Application A570 - Ferric Sodium Edetate as a Permitted Form of Iron
  • Application A607 - Maximum Residue Limits (April, May, June 2007)
  • Application A610 - Maximum Residue Limits (July, August 2007)
  • Application A612 - Maximum Residue Limits - Dimetridazole (Antibiotic)
  • Proposal M1001 - Maximum Residue Limits (September, October, November, December 2007)

A number of amendments relating to Editorial Notes have also been made. These were originally included in Proposal P1001 - Omnibus VII. An amendment to an Editorial note in Standard 2.2.1 is also being made.