Food Standards (Application A1088 – Sodium Hydrosulphite as a Food Additive) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1088 – Sodium Hydrosulphite as a Food Additive) 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 Standard commences on the date specified in clause 3 of this variation.

Dated 1 December 2014

Standards Management Officer

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note: 

This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 93 on 4 December 2014. 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 (Application A1088 – Sodium Hydrosulphite as a Food Additive) Variation.

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

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

3             Commencement

The variation commences on the date of gazettal.

SCHEDULE

[1]           Standard 1.2.4 is varied by

[1.1]        inserting in Schedule 2, Part 1 in alphabetical order

“

Sodium hydrosulphite –

”

[1.2]        inserting in Schedule 2, Part 2 above “Curcumin or turmeric”

“

Sodium hydrosulphite –

”

[2]           Standard 1.3.1 is varied by

[2.1]        omitting from subclause 5(2) “sulphur dioxide, sulphites including bisulphites and metabisulphites shall be calculated as sulphur dioxide.” and substituting

“sulphur dioxide and sulphites including hydrosulphites, bisulphites and metabisulphites shall be calculated as sulphur dioxide.”

[2.2]        inserting in item 9.4 of Schedule 1 under the heading “canned abalone (paua)”

“

– Sodium hydrosulphite 1000 mg/kg

”