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Standard 1.2.7 Nutrition, health and related claims

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.

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.
Division 1 Preliminary
1.2.7—1 Name
  This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Standard 1.2.7 – Nutrition, health and related claims.
 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.
1.2.7—2 Definitions
  In Standard 1.2.7 and Standard 1.2.8:
fruit means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are present in the typical proportion of the whole fruit (with or without the peel or water); and does not include nuts, spices, herbs, fungi, legumes and seeds.
vegetable means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are present in the typical proportion of the whole vegetable (with or without the peel or water) and does not include nuts, spices, herbs, fungi, dried legumes (including dried legumes that have been cooked or rehydrated) and seeds.

Note 1 In this Code (see section 1.1.2—2):
            biomarker means a measurable biological parameter that is predictive of the risk of a serious disease when present at an abnormal level in the human body.
            carbohydrate, other than in the definition of beer (section 1.1.2—3), means available carbohydrate or available carbohydrate by difference.
            claim means an express or implied statement, representation, design or information in relation to a food or a property of food which is not mandatory in this Code.
            endorsement means a nutrition content claim or a health claim that is made with the permission of an endorsing body.
            endorsing body means a not-for-profit entity that:
 (a) has a nutrition- or health-related purpose or function; and
 (b) permits a supplier to make an endorsement.
            fat, in Standards 1.2.7 and 1.2.8 and Schedules 4 and 11, means total fat.
            food group means any of the following groups:
 (a) bread (both leavened and unleavened), grains, rice, pasta and noodles;
 (b) fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices and fungi;
 (c) milk, skim milk, cream, fermented milk, yoghurt, cheese, processed cheese, butter, ice cream, condensed milk, dried milk, evaporated milk, and dairy analogues derived from legumes, cereals, nuts, seeds, or a combination of these ingredients listed in section S17—4;
 (d) meat, fish, eggs, nuts,