Australia New Zealand Food Authority Variations to the Food Standards Code (Amendment No. 35) 1. Preamble The variations set forth in the Schedule below are variations to the Food Standards Code (hereinafter called ``the code'') which was published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. P 27, on 27 August 1987, and which has been varied from time to time. The Schedule contains variations adopted by the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council in May, June and July 1997. These variations are published, pursuant to section 32 of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991. 2. Citation These variations may be collectively known as Amendment No. 35 to the code. 3. Commencement These variations commence on the date of publication of this New Zealand Gazette. 4. Correction of Typographical Error Amendment 34 published on 15 May 1997, contained a typographical error in Item 13, relating to Standard D2. The maximum permitted level of calcium disodium EDTA should read ``250 mg/kg''. Schedule 1. Standard A8 is varied by 1.1 omitting ``not permitted'' from the Table to clause (5), in relation to the entry in the Column headed ``Sucralose'' for ``Chewing Gum'' and substituting ``1.25 g/kg''; and 1.2 omitting ``not permitted'' from the Table to clause (5), in relation to the entry in the Column headed ``Sucralose'' for ``Electrolyte drink and electrolyte drink base'', and substituting ``75 mg/kg''. 2. Standard A12 is varied by deleting from the Table the reference to cadmium in Column 1 and all entries in Columns 2 and 3 relating to cadmium and substituting ``Cadmium Chocolate and cocoa products 0.5 Kidney of cattle, sheep or pig 2.5 Leafy vegetables (as specified in Schedule 3 to Standard A14) 0.1 Liver of cattle, sheep or pig 1.25 Meat flesh of cattle, sheep or pig 0.05 Molluscs (excluding dredge/bluff oysters and queen scallops) 2 Peanuts 0.05 Rice 0.1 Root and tuber vegetables (as specified in Schedule 3 to Standard A14) 0.1 Wheat 0.1''. 3. Standard A14 is varied by 3.1 omitting from Schedule 1, in relation to the entry in Column 1 for ``Dimethoate'', entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively for ``2 Fruits (except strawberry)'' and substituting ``2 Fruits (except strawberry)'' 5 Litchi''; 3.2 inserting in Schedule 1, entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively Abamectin Cattle milk 0.005 Cotton seed 0.01 Pear 0.01 Tomato 0.01 Apple 0.01 Strawberry 0.02 Altrenogest Pig meat 0.005 Pig, edible offal of 0.005 Chlorfenapyr Cotton seed 0.5 Cyclanilide Cotton seed 0.5 Cyprodinil Pome fruit 1.0 Diofenolan Citrus fruits 0.5 Mango 0.5 Papaya (Pawpaw) 0.5 Avocado 0.5 Macadamia nuts 0.5 Stone fruits 0.5 Pome fruits 0.5 Etofenprox Cotton seed 0.05 Fenpyroximate Apple 0.2 Pear 0.2 Pyrimethanil Apple 1.0 Pear 1.0 Grapes 5.0 Strawberry 5.0 Tomato 2.0 Tribenuron-methyl Barley 0.01 Maize 0.05 Oats 0.01 Sorghum 0.01 Wheat 0.01 Chick pea (dry) 0.01 Mung bean (dry) 0.01 Soya bean (dry) 0.01 Rape seed 0.01 Cotton seed 0.05 Sunflower seed 0.01 Meat (mammalian) 0.01 Edible offal (mammalian) 0.01 Milks 0.01; 3.3 omitting from Schedule 1, in relation to each chemical shown below in bold type, the entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively as set out in relation to that chemical Bromoxynil Sugar cane 0.02 Ivermectin Cattle, edible offal of 0.01 Cattle meat 0.01 Pig, edible offal of 0.01 Pig meat 0.01 Sheep, edible offal of 0.01 Sheep meat 0.01 Methamidophos Brussels sprouts 1 Cabbages, head 1 Cauliflower 1 Paraquat Sorghum 0.5 Soya bean (dry) 0.1 Vegetables (except potato, soya bean (dry)) 0.05; 3.4 inserting in Schedule 1, in relation to each chemical shown below in bold type, additional entries in Columns 1 and 2 respectively as set out in relation to that chemical Azinphos-methyl Litchi 2 Macadamia nuts 0.01 Bifenthrin Rape seed 0.02 Tomato 0.5 Ethoprophos Grapes 0.01 Fenoxycarb Currants, black 2 Imadacloprid Lupin (dry) 0.02 Rape seed 0.02 Meat (mammalian) 0.02 Milks 0.02 Poultry, edible offal of 0.02 Poultry meat 0.02 Eggs 0.02 Ivermectin Edible offal (mammalian) 0.01 Meat (mammalian) 0.01 Pig fat 0.02 Methamidophos Brassica (cole or cabbage vegetables) 1 Metosulam Poultry, edible offal of 0.01 Poultry meat 0.01 Eggs 0.01 Paraquat Pulses 1.0 Vegetables (except potato, pulses) 0.05 Penconazole Brussels sprouts 0.05 Phorate Sugar cane 0.05 Picloram Sugar cane 0.01 Tebuconazole Avocado 0.2 Cotton seed 1.0 Terbufos Cattle, edible offal of 0.05 Cattle meat 0.05 Cattle milk 0.01 Eggs 0.01 Poultry, edible offal of 0.05 Poultry meat 0.05 Tilmicosin Pig, edible offal of 1.0 Pig meat 0.05 Triadimenol Broccoli 0.2 Cauliflower 0.2; and 3.5 omitting from Column 2 of Schedule 1 the MRL for each entry relating to a chemical and food specified below, and substituting the MRL specified below Ethephon Cotton seed 3 Ivermectin Sheep fat 0.05 Tebuconazole Cereal grains 0.2 Triadimenol Cabbages, head 0.5. 4. Standard M2 is varied by 4.1 omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting ``(a) must contain at lease 200 g/kg of protein calculated by multiplying the nitrogen content of the food by a factor of 5.46;''; 4.2 omitting subparagraph (2) (b) (i); and 4.3 inserting after subsubparagraph (2) (b) (iii) (C) ``(D) 150 g/kg of added vegetable oil;''. 5. Standard O8 is varied by omitting ``AS 1095 Microbiological Methods for the Dairy Industry part 4.1.13'' from clause 7 (b) and substituting ``AS 4276 Water Microbiology part 13''. 6. Standard S5 is varied by omitting ``AS 1095 Microbiological Methods for the Dairy Industry part 4.1.13'' from clause 4 (c) and substituting ``AS 4276 Water Microbiology part 13''.