Download Adoption of recent amendments to joint food standards under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Notice, Amendments 249, 250 and 251

Australian Amendment no. 249, 250, and 251. These amendments are set out below:



Resulting from P1065, Amendment No. 249 amends standards 1.1.2, 1.2.8, 2.9.1, and 2.10.4, and schedules 3, 4, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 29 to:

Include compositional fat requirements for Special Medical Purpose Product for infants that were approved in Proposal P1028 but which were inadvertently omitted from the Code amendments.
Correct omissions, inconsistencies, formatting issues and typographical errors in the Code.
Update references in the Code.
Resulting from P1056, Amendment No. 250 amends standards 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.5.1, 2.9.4, and 2.10.4 to:

Prohibit the retail sale of caffeine as a food.
Prohibit caffeine from all sources as an added ingredient in foods for retail sale unless specifically allowed elsewhere in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
Restrict the retail sale of guarana extract with high caffeine concentrations.
Introduce new labelling requirements for high caffeine coffee beverages.
Permit caffeine in formulated supplementary sports foods within defined limits, including a maximum one-day quality of 200mg.
Introduce new labelling and packaging requirements for formulated supplementary sports foods that contain caffeine.
Resulting from A1304 and A1305, Amendment 251 amends schedule 18 to:

Permit endo-1,4-beta-xylanase from a genetically modified strain of Bacillus lichenformis to be used as a processing aid in the production of distilled alcohol and starch and gluten fractions.
Permit alpha-amylase from Bacillus licheniformis (containing the gene for alpha-amylase from the gene variant ANZ105) to be used as a processing aid in starch processing, to produce starch hydrolysates, and the production of potable alcohol.

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