Food Standards (Application A1222 – Steviol glycosides from Yarrowia lipolytica) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1222 – Steviol glycosides from Yarrowia lipolytica) 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 1 December 2021

Dr Matthew O’Mullane

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note: 

This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 145 on 6 December 2021. 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 A1222 – Steviol glycosides from Yarrowia lipolytica) 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.

4             Order in which amendments in the Schedule take effect

Amendments in the Schedule take effect in numerical order.

Schedule

[1]           Schedule 3 is varied by

[1.1]       omitting subsections S3—39(1) and (2), substituting

(1)      This specification relates to a steviol glycosides preparation that:

(a)      is obtained from fermentation;

(b)      is not obtained from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant; and

(c)      contains steviol glycosides that are only derived from one of the following:

(i)       Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain CD15407 containing novel genes for the production of steviol glycosides;

(ii)      Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain Y63348 containing novel genes for the production of steviol glycosides;

(iii)     Yarrowia lipolytica strain VRM0014 containing novel genes for the production of steviol glycosides.

[1.2]        renumbering subsection S3—39(3) as subsection (2).