Food Standards (Application A1240 – Polygalacturonase from GM Aspergillus oryzae as a processing aid) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1240 – Polygalacturonase from GM Aspergillus oryzae 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 2 December 2022

Leise Berven

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note: 

This variation will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 154 on 8 December 2022. 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 A1240 – Polygalacturonase from GM Aspergillus oryzae as a processing aid) 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

Schedule 18—Processing aids

[1]           Subsection S18—9(3) (table)

Insert:

Polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15) sourced from Aspergillus oryzae containing the polygalacturonase gene from Aspergillus tubingensis For use during the manufacture and/or processing of the following types of food: (a)     coffee; (b)     fruit and vegetable juices; (c)     fruit and vegetable products; (d)     wine; and (e)     flavouring substances. GMP