Food Act 1989 Regulation adopting certain provisions of a Standard of the National Food Standards Code (1990-618) [GG No 115 of 21.9.1990] (NSW)

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FOOD ACT 1989 - REGULATION

(Adopting certain provisions of a Standard of the

National Food Standards Code)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 115 of 21 September 1990]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in pursuance of the Food Act 1989 and on the recommendation of the Food Advisory Committee, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

PETER COLLINS

Minister for Health.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 21 September 1990.

Amendments

2. The Food Standards Code set out in Schedule 1 to the Food Standards Code (Adoption) Regulation 1989 is amended by omitting after Standard S2 the matter relating to Standard S4 and by inserting instead the following matter:

S4-SAMPLES

(1) Subject to this Standard, an authorised officer who takes or otherwise obtains a sample of food with the intention that it be submitted for analysis shall take or otherwise obtain a sample of such size and, where appropriate, of such number and such size of sample units as will enable the proposed analysis to be carried out.

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(2) An authorised officer who takes or otherwise obtains a

sample of food for the purpose of submitting it for microbiological
analysis:

(a)	shall not divide that sample into separate parts;
(b)	where the sample consists of one or more than one sealed package of a kind ordinarily sold by retail, shall submit for such analysis that sample in that package or those packages in an unopened and intact condition.

(3) The number of sample units and the minimum size or the description of each sample unit to be taken or otherwise obtained for the purpose of microbiological analysis in respect of the food specified in column 1 of Table 1 to this Standard shall, as regards the number, be the number specified in column 2 thereof set out opposite and in relation to that food and, as regards the minimum size or the description, be the minimum size or the description specified in column 3 thereof set out opposite and in relation to that food.

(4) NOT ADOPTED (5) NOT ADOPTED

TABLE 1

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

Food Number Minimum

of sample	size or
units	description of sample

units

Cheese, Cheddar or Gouda 5 100 g

Chopped or minced meat, uncooked	NOT ADOPTED
Cooked corned, cured, pickled or salted meat, cooked pressed corned, pressed cured, pressed pickled or pressed salted meat	NOT ADOPTED

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Cream, rich cream, light cream, extra light cream, reduced cream, pasteurised cream, pasteurised rich cream, pasteurised light cream, pasteurised extra light cream, pasteurised reduced cream	5	100 mL
Desiccated coconut	10	100 g
Dried milk, dried skim milk, or skim milk powder, malted milk powder	10	100 g

Frozen frogs’ legs NOT ADOPTED

Frozen pre-cooked food 5 100 g

Goat milk, pasteurised goat milk	5	100 mL
Liquid egg, liquid yolk, liquid white, mixtures of liquid yolk and liquid white	5	100 g

Manufactured meat, uncooked fermented	NOT ADOPTED
Meat paste or spread including pate or	NOT ADOPTED

pate

Milk, pasteurised milk, pasteurised 5 100 mL

modified milk, pasteurised skim milk and pasteurised flavoured liquid milk products

Oysters, fresh or frozen NOT ADOPTED

Pasta, uncooked, wet or dry	5	100 g
Prawns, cooked	5	100 g

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Ultra heat treated cream, ultra heat treated rich cream, ultra heat treated	15	unopened
packages

light cream, ultra heat treated extra light	any size
cream, ultra heat treated reduced cream, ultra heat treated thickened cream, ultra heat treated whipped thickened reduced cream

Ultra heat treated milk, sterilised milk	15	unopened packages any size
Yoghurt, reduced fat yoghurt, skim milk yoghurt, yoghurt products specified in the Standard for yoghurt and yoghurt products (H8)	5	100 g

TABLE 2

NOT ADOPTED

EXPLANATORY NOTE