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Food Standards (Proposal P1063 – Code Revision (2024) - Added Sugar(s) Claims) Variation

The Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this variation under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.  The variation commences on the date specified in clause 3 of this variation.

Dated 23 October 2024

Luci Henson, General Manager, Corporate Services
Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note:

This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 173 on 29 October 2024. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of clause 3 of the variation.

     1 Name

This instrument is the Food Standards (Proposal P1063 – Code Revision (2024) – Added Sugar(s) Claims) Variation.

     2 Variation to Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code

The Schedule varies Standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

     3 Commencement

The variation commences on the date of gazettal.

4 Effect of the variations made by this instrument

(1) Section 1.1.1—9 of Standard 1.1.1 does not apply to the variations made by this instrument.

     (2) During the transition period, a food product may be sold if the product complies with one of the following:

          (a) the Code as in force without the variations made by the instruments; or

          (b) the Code as amended by the variations made by the instruments.

     (3) A food product that was packaged and labelled before the end of the transition period may be sold during the post-transition period if the product complies with one of the following:

          (a) the Code as in force without the variations made by the instruments; or

          (b) the Code as amended by the variations made by the instruments.

     (4) For the purposes of this clause:

          (a) the instruments means:

             (a) this instrument; and

             (b) the Food Standards (Proposal P1062 – Defining added sugars for claims) Variation;

          (b) transition period means the period commencing on the date of commencement of this instrument and ending 48 months after the date of commencement of the Food Standards (Proposal P1062 – Defining added sugars for claims) Variation; and

          (c) post-transition period means the 24 month period commencing on the day after the transition period ends.

Schedule

     Standard 1.1.2 – Definitions used throughout the Code

     [1] Subsection 1.1.2—2(3) (paragraph (a) of the definition of sugars)

 Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

               (a) in Standard 1.2.7, Standard 1.2.8 and Schedule 4—means monosaccharides and disaccharides; and

     Standard 1.2.7 – Nutrition, health and related claims

     [2] Section 1.2.7—2 (Note 1, the definition of sugars)

 Repeal the definition, substitute:

            sugars, in Standard 1.2.7, Standard 1.2.8 and Schedule 4—means monosaccharides and disaccharides. (Elsewhere in the Code it