Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00920:reg:20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00920
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 20
Character Range: 33866–34914

20  Food grown, produced or made in Australia that is exported and re-imported

If food to which section 18 or 19 applies was:

           (a)           grown, produced or made in Australia; and

           (b)           exported from Australia and then re-imported to Australia:

the mark required to be included in the labelling must also include a description, in brackets, of the processing that occurred outside Australia.

Note: Section 18 or 19 will apply only if the food was grown, produced or made in Australia, so that it cannot have undergone a substantial transformation when abroad, nor can it have been combined with non-Australian ingredients outside Australia. However, it may have undergone some processing (for example, cleaning, shelling, packaging, re-packaging) and it may have been combined with other Australian ingredients.

For example, the label for Australian macadamias sent to Fiji for shelling, sorting and packing before being returned to Australia would include a statement '(shelled, sorted and packed in Fiji)'.