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Part 3

     Application guidelines

Subsection 22(2) of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth) (FSANZ Act) provides that an application for the development or variation of a food regulatory measure must, amongst other things:

     * be in the form specified in the application guidelines; and
     * include all the information specified by the Application guidelines.

The application guidelines set out at this Part 3 of the Application Handbook are guidelines made by legislative instrument in accordance with subsection 23(1) of the FSANZ Act.

For the purposes of these guidelines, an application includes all documents provided to FSANZ in support of the development or variation of a food regulatory measure.

The guidelines outline requirements related to each of the groups of standards in the following list. Applications to vary the Code will generally, but not exclusively, relate to one or more of the following groups of standards. In many cases, an application may seek a change that means the information requirements of several guidelines must be met:

     * standards related to labelling and other information requirements
     * standards related to substances added to food
     * standards related to contaminants and natural toxins
     * standards related to new foods
     * standards related to special purpose foods or standardised foods
     * standards related to food production
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Each of these broad. groups of standards contains a number of individual food standards which relates to specific food matters. For each, there will be different information requirements. Applicants should identify the guidelines that are relevant to their particular application.

An example of when more than one guideline might apply is where an application involves adding a nutritive substance to infant formula. In this case, the information requirements for Guidelines 3.1.1 –General requirements, 3.3.3 – Substances used for a nutritive purpose and 3.6.2 – Special purpose food – Infant formula products, would be relevant.

In the case of Chapter 3.2, Applicants should begin with the Guideline on general food labelling, which contains general requirements for an application related to labelling. The other guidelines relate to particular aspects of labelling, which may or may not be relevant to a particular application.

Boxed text such as notes or examples in these application guidelines provide additional information or clarification of requirements outlined in the guidelines only. They do not form part of the guidelines.

     Chapter 3.1

     General requirements for applications

3.1.1 General requirements
The application must contain the information specified in this Guideline (3.1.1) and as appropriate, the information indicated in Chapters. 3.2–3.7.

Note:

Consultation with FSANZ

Applicants are strongly advised to consult with FSANZ prior to submitting an application to ensure that the application contains all the necessary information relevant to the proposed food regulatory measure