On Feb. 22, 2016, Food Standards
Australia New Zealand released No. 161 Notification to revise the Australia New
Zealand Food Standards Code. Standards and Laws Center of Foodmate.com found
the revisions mainly contain:
Standard 1.1.1 –Structure of the Code and general provisions
Standard 1.1.2 –Definitions used throughout the Code
Standard 1.2.7 –Nutrition, health and related claims
Standard 1.3.1 –Food additives
Standard 1.4.1 –Contaminants and natural toxicants
Standard 1.4.2 –Agvet chemicals
Standard 1.5.2 –Food produced using gene technology
Standard 2.4.2 –Edible oil spreads
Standard 2.7.1–Labelling of alcoholic beverages and food
containing alcohol
Standard 2.7.4 –Wine and wine product
Standard 2.9.4 –Formulated supplementary sports foods
Standard 2.9.5 –Food for special medical purposes
Standard 2.9.6 –Transitional standard for special purpose
foods (including amino acid modified foods)
Standard 2.10.2 –Salt and salt products
Schedule 1 –RDIs and ESADDIs
Schedule 2 –Units of measurement
Schedule 3 –Identity and purity
Schedule 4 –Nutrition, health and related claims
Schedule 9 –Mandatory advisory statements
Schedule 12 –Nutrition information panels
Schedule 15 –Substances that may be used as food additives
Schedule 17 –Vitamins and minerals
Schedule 18 –Processing aids
Schedule 20 –Maximum residue limits
Schedule 26 –Food produced using gene technology
Schedule 29 –Special purpose foods
Aforesaid standards have been
officially released and implemented from March 1, 2016 on official website of Food
Standards Australia New Zealand