Food Standards (Application A1111 – Bacteriophage S16 & FO1a as a Processing Aid) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1111 – Bacteriophage S16 & FO1a as a Processing Aid) 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 11 May 2016

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 105 on 19 May 2016. 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 A1111 – Bacteriophage S16 & FO1a as a Processing Aid) Variation.

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

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

3             Commencement

This instrument commences on gazettal.

Schedule

[1]           Schedule 3 is varied by

[1.1]        inserting in the table to subsection S3—2(2) in alphabetical order

Salmonella phage preparation (S16 and FO1a) section S3—33

[1.2]        inserting after section S3—32

S3—33                Specifications for Salmonella phage preparation (S16 and FO1a)

(1)      In this section:

a preparation means a Salmonella phage preparation (S16 and FO1a).

Salmonella phage preparation (S16 and FO1a) means a solution of a 1:1 blend of Salmonella phage S16 and Salmonella phage FO1a.

(2)      Salmonella phage S16 in a preparation must comply with the specification in subsection (4).

(3)      Salmonella phage FO1a in a preparation must comply with the specification in subsection (5).

(4)      The biological classification for Salmonella phage S16 in a preparation is the following:

(a)      order—Caudavirales;

(b)      family—Myoviridae;

(c)      genus—T4-like;

(d)      species—Salmonella phage S16;

(e)      GenBank Accession Number—HQ331142

(5)      The biological classification for Salmonella phage FO1a in a preparation is the following:

(a)      order—Caudavirales;

(b)      family—Myoviridae;

(c)      genus—FelixO1-like;

(d)      species— Salmonella phage FO1a;

(e)      GenBank Accession Number—JF461087.

[2]           Schedule 18 is varied by inserting in the table to section S18—9 in alphabetical order

Salmonella phage preparation (S16 and FO1a) Reduce population of Salmonella species on the surface of raw meat and raw poultry meat during processing. GMP