Food Standards (Proposal P1016 – Hydrocyanic Acid in Apricot Kernels & other Foods) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Proposal P1016– Hydrocyanic Acid in Apricot Kernels & other Foods) 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.

30 November 2015

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 101 on 7 December 2015. 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 (Proposal P1016 – Hydrocyanic Acid in Apricot Kernels & other Foods) Variation.

2             Variation to Standards 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

[1]           Standard 1.4.4 is varied by –

[1.1]        inserting after clause 2 –

“3            Raw apricot kernels

(1)           Raw apricot kernels must not be sold in a retail sale.

(2)           Raw apricot kernels must not be used as an ingredient in a food unless the kernels have been or will be subject to processing or a treatment that renders them safe for human consumption.

(3)           To avoid doubt, nothing in this clause prevents the sale of apricots containing their raw apricot kernels or the use of such apricots as an ingredient in a food.

(4)           Nothing in this clause affects the operation of clause 4 of Standard 1.4.1. 

(5)           For the purposes of this clause –

raw apricot kernels means the nut found within the hard shell or stone of Prunus armeniaca and includes hulled, dehulled, blanched, ground, milled, cracked, chopped or whole kernels.

(6)           Subclause 1(2) of Standard 1.1.1 does not apply in relation to any variation made by Food Standards (Proposal P1016 – Hydrocyanic Acid in Apricot Kernels & other Foods) Variation.”

[1.2]        updating the Table of Provisions to reflect these variations.