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listing in the statement of ingredients of the food for sale:
                  (i) the *required name of the food to be declared; and
                  (ii) if the food to be declared is a substance *used as a processing aid or an ingredient or component of such a substance, the words 'processing aid' in conjunction with that required name; and
                    Examples:  processing aids (wheat, egg); processing aid containing wheat.
 (b) including a summary statement on the label of the food for sale.
Note Statement of ingredients provisions are set out in Standard 1.2.4.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a food for sale to which subsection 1.2.4—2(2) or subsection 1.2.4—2(3) applies.
 Note  Subsections 1.2.4—2(2) and (3) provide that certain foods are not required to have a statement of ingredients on their label.
 (4) A declaration made in relation to any of the following foods for sale must be made by stating the name of the food to which subsection 1.2.3—4(1) applies and that is present in the food for sale:
               (a) a food for special medical purposes; or
               (b) a special medical purpose product for infants.
 Note 1 Paragraph 2.9.5—9(1)(d) applies to food for special medical purposes and provides that a label that is required for such food must make (among other things) any mandatory declarations required by section 1.2.3—4.
                Note 2 Division 4 of Standard 2.9.1 applies to a special medical purpose product for infants and sets out compositional and labelling requirements for such food.
 (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the name to be stated must be:
               (a) the name listed for that food in Column 1 of the table to section S9—3; or
  (b)  any other name by which that food is commonly known.
1.2.3—7 Form of a mandatory declaration
 (1) A *required name in a statement of ingredients must be printed:
 (a)  in a bold font that provides a distinct contrast with any other text in the statement of ingredients which is not a required name; and
 (b)  in a *size of type that is not less than the size of type of the other text in the statement of ingredients that is not a required name.
 (2) A *required name in a statement of ingredients must be listed:
              (a)   separately for each ingredient that is or contains the relevant food; and
  Example  kamut (wheat), maltodextrin (wheat)
               (b)  as a separate word or as separate words if the required name is contained in the name of the ingredient that is or contains the relevant food; and
  Examples milk powder, sesame seeds, but not buttermilk
               (c)  separately from but next to the name of the ingredient that is or contains the relevant food unless the required name:
                (i)