Food Standards (Proposal P1039 – Microbiological Criteria for Infant Formula) Variation (Cth)

Food Standards (Proposal P1039 – Microbiological Criteria for Infant Formula) 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 11 May 2016

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 105 on 19 May 2016. 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 P1039 – Microbiological Criteria for Infant Formula) 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.

4             Effect of the variation to the Code

Section 1.1.1—9 of the Code does not apply to the variation made by this instrument.

Schedule

[1]           Standard 1.1.2 is varied by omitting the definition of SPC from subsection 1.1.2—2(3), substituting

SPC means a standard plate count at 30°C with an incubation time of 72 hours.

[2]           Schedule 27 is varied by

[2.1]        omitting the note to section S27—2, substituting

Note   In this Code (see section 1.1.2—2):

SPC means a standard plate count at 30°C with an incubation time of 72 hours.

[2.2]        omitting section S27—3

[2.3]        omitting the following from the table to section S27—4

Powdered infant formula products
Bacillus cereus	5	0	102/g
Coagulase-positive staphylococci	5	1	not detected in 1 g	10/g
Coliforms	5	2	less than 3/g	10/g
Salmonella	10	0	not detected in 25 g
SPC	5	2	103/g	104/g

substituting

Powdered infant formula products*
Cronobacter	30	0	not detected in 10g
Salmonella	60	0	not detected in 25 g

Powdered follow-on formula*
Salmonella	60	0	not detected in 25 g