Food Standards (Application A1092 – Irradiation of Specific Fruits & Vegetables) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1092 – Irradiation of Specific Fruits & Vegetables) 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 20 February 2015

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 95 on 26 February 2015. 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 A1092 – Irradiation of Specific Fruits & Vegetables) Variation.

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

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

3             Commencement

The variation commences on the date of gazettal.

SCHEDULE

[1]           Standard 1.5.3 is varied by

[1.1]        omitting from the Table to clause 4

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Bread fruit Capsicum Carambola Custard apple Litchi Longan Mango Mangosteen Papaya (Paw paw) Persimmon Rambutan Tomato Minimum: 150 Gy Maximum: 1 kGy Pest disinfestation for a phytosanitary objective.

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[1.2]        inserting in the Table to clause 4

“

Apple Apricot Bread fruit Capsicum Carambola Cherry Custard apple Honeydew Litchi Longan Mango Mangosteen Nectarine Papaya (Paw paw) Peach Persimmon Plum Rambutan Rockmelon Scallopini Strawberry Table Grape Tomato Zucchini (courgette) Minimum: 150 Gy Maximum: 1 kGy Pest disinfestation for a phytosanitary objective.

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