Food Standards (Application A1248 – Glucoamylase from GM Aspergillus niger (gene donor: Gloeophyllum trabeum) as a processing aid) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Application A1248 – Glucoamylase from GM Aspergillus niger (gene donor: Gloeophyllum trabeum) 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 A1248 – Glucoamylase from GM Aspergillus niger (gene donor: Gloeophyllum trabeum) 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:

Glucoamylase, protein engineered variant, (EC 3.2.1.3) sourced from Aspergillus niger containing the glucoamylase gene from Gloeophyllum trabeum For use in starch processing and the production of potable alcohol GMP

[2]           Subsection S18—9(3) (note after table)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note    Some enzyme sources identified in this table are protein engineered. If such an enzyme is used as a processing aid, the resulting food may have as an ingredient a food produced using gene technology, and the requirements relating to foods produced using gene technology will apply—see Standard 1.2.1 and Standard 1.5.2. The relevant enzymes are the following:

●           Endo-1,4-ß-xylanase, protein engineered variant;

●           Glucoamylase, protein engineered variant;

●           Maltogenic α-Amylase, protein engineered variant;

●          Protein engineered enzymes used in the manufacture of various steviol glycosides.