Food Standards (Application A1161 – Potassium polyaspartate as a food additive) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1161– Potassium polyaspartate 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 variation commences on the date specified in clause 3 of this variation.

Dated 20 February 2019

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 125 on 27 February 2019. 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 A1161 – Potassium polyaspartate as a food additive) 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.

Schedule

[1]           Standard 4.5.1 is varied by

[1.1]        inserting in the table to clause 3, in alphabetical order

Potassium polyaspartate

[1.2]        omitting paragraph 5(5)(h), substituting

(h)          200 mg/L of added dimethyl dicarbonate; and

(i)           100 mg/L of potassium polyaspartate.

[2]           Schedule 8 is varied by

[2.1]        inserting in the table to section S8—2 entitled ‘Food additive names—alphabetical listing’, in alphabetical order

Potassium polyaspartate –

[2.2]        omitting the following from the table to section S8—2 entitled ‘Food additive names—numerical listing’,

– Sodium hydrosulphite

substituting

– Potassium polyaspartate

– Sodium hydrosulphite

[3]           Schedule 15 is varied by omitting from item 14.2.2 in the table to section S15—5,

150a Caramel I – plain GMP

substituting

Potassium polyaspartate	100
150a	Caramel I – plain	GMP