1235 1984/262 THE FOOD REGULATIONS 1984 DAVID BEATIlE, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington this 23rd day of October 1984 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR' GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to section 42 of the Food Act 1981, His Excellency the Governor­ General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations. ANALYSIS 1. Title and commencement 14. Claims as to presence of vitamins 2. Interpretation 15. Claims as to presence of minerals 16. Certain other claims on labels PART I GENERAL LABELLING REQUIREMENTS Exemptions 3. Food not to be sold unless properly 17. Exemptions from regulation 3 labelled 18. Exemptions from regulation 11 4. General requirements for labelling of 19. Exemptions from regulation 12 food 20. Further exemptions from certain 5. Form and manner of labelling provisions of these regulations 6. Size of letters 7. Labelling of food not sold in suitable PART II packages STANDARDS AND PARTICULAR LABELLING 8. Principal display panel REQUIREMENTS 9. Consumer information panel 10. Automatic vending machines Flour, M eais, Bread, and Cereal Products 11. Statement of ingredients 21. Flour 12. Date marking 22. Wholemeal flour 13. Misleading statements 23. Self-raising flour 1236 Food Regulations 1984 1984/262 24. Chlorinated flour 80. Phosphate· treated fresh fish 25. Self-raising cake flour 81. Frozen fish 26. Gluten flour 82. Cured fish or salted fish 27. Protein·increased flour 83. Smoked fish 28. Wheat genn or wheat genn meal 84. Canned fish 29. Oatmeal 85. Manufactured fish 30. Maize meal 86. Labelling of fish and fish products 31. Mixed meals 32. Labelling of flours and meals 33. Rice Edible Fats and Edible Oils 34. Cornflour 87. General standard for edible fats and 35. Bread edible oils 36. White bread 88. Margarine 37. Wholemeal bread 89. Dripping 38. Brown bread 90. Lard 39. Milk bread 91. Suet 40. Protein-enriched bread or protein· increased bread Milk and Milk Products 41. Fruit bread 42. Specialty bread 92. Milk or raw milk 43. Bread mix 93. Pasteurised milk and pasteurised milk 44. Labelling of bread products 45. F10ur confectionery 94. UHT (ultra heat treated) milk and UHT 46. Mixes for flour confectionery (ultra heat treated) milk products 47. Proprietary bakery additive mixes 95. Standard milk 48. Prepared cereal foods, including break· 96. Recombined milk fast cereals 97. F1avoured milk 49. Pasta 98. Skim milk or non·fat milk 50. Table confections 99. Cream or raw cream 100. Whipping cream or whipped cream Aerating IngmlientJ 10 l. Light cream 102. Reduced cream, pouring cream, and sour I 51. Acid phosphates cream 52. Baking powder 103. Cream filling, cake cream, or sponge Malt and Malt Extracts cream 104. Recombined cream 53. Malt 105. Labelling of milk and milk products 54. Malt extract 106. Milk beverages or milk shakes 55. Bakers' malt extract, conunercial malt 107. Evaporated milk and evaporated skim extract, or bakers' maltose milk 108. Sweetened condensed milk and skimmed Meat and Fish sweetened condensed milk 56. Meat 109. Milk powder or dried milk 57. Fresh meat or chilled meat 110. skim milk powder or dried non·fat milk 58. Frozen meat and frozen meat products solids 59. Dried meat 111. Butter 60. Canned meat 112. Butter oil, and anhydrous butter oil or 61. Corned, cured, or salted meat and anhydrous milk fat pickled meat 113. Cheese 62. Smoked meat 114. Whey cheese 63. Muttonbirds 115. Processed cheese 64. Brands for packages of muttonbirds 116. Spreadable processed cheese 65. Minced meat, ground meat, or chopped 117. Processed cheese food or processed meat cheese spread 66. Hamburger meat or hamburger patty 118. Dried cheese or powdered cheese 67. Manufactured meat 119. Yoghurt 68. Canned manufactured meat 120. Rennet 69. Jellied meat 121. Ice cream 70. Meat with sauce and other foodstuffs 122. Frozen confections 71. Meat pie 72. Tripe 73. Gelatin Vinegar and Sauces 74. Meat extract, meat essence, or meat juice 123. Vinegar 75. Labelling of meat and meat products 124. Imitation vinegar 76. Proprietary meat additive mixes 125. Salad dressing 77. Calculation of protein content 126. Mayonnaise 78. Fish 127. Pickles and chutney 79. Fresh fish or chilled fish 128. Sauce 1984/262 Food Regulations 1984 1237 129. Tomato sauce 181. Canned fruit 130. Tomato and apple sauce or tomato 182. Fruit mince or mincemeat chutney sauce 183. Fruit juice 184. Concentrated fruit juice Eggs and Egg Products 185.Jam 131. Eggs 186. Fruit jelly 132. Preserved eggs 187. Marmalade 133. Pulped egg 188.Jam spread 134. Dried egg 189.Jelly spread 190. Marmalade spread Sugar and Sugar Products 191. Pectin 192. Jam·setting compound 135. Sugar 136. Raw sugar Nub and Nut Products 137. Brown sugar 138. Golden syrup 193. Nuts 139. Coloured sugar 194. Peanut butter 140. Icing sugar 195. Desiccated coconut 141. Glucose 142. Glucose syrup SaLf.5 and Spices 143. Dextrose anhydrous 196. Salt 144. Dextrose monohydrate 197. Table salt 145. Fructose 198. Iodised salt or iodised table salt 146. Honey 199. Spices 147. Carbohydrate sweetener 200. Particular spice standards 148. Labelling of carbohydrate food 201. Mustard powder, mustard flour, etc. 149. C..onfectionery 202. Spiced powders 150. Almond J>aste, almond icing, or marzipan 203. Culinary essences, culinary extracts, and 151. Almond·flavoured paste or almond· culinary flavourings flavoured icing 204. Artificial culinary essences, artificial culi· 152. Cake decorations nary extracts, and artificial culinary flavourings Tea, Coffoe, and Cocoa 153. Tea Soup and Soup Powdm 154. Instant tea or soluble tea 155. Coffee 205. Soup 206. Soup powder or dried soup 156. Chicory 157. Coffee and chicory 158. Coffee essence or coffee extract Water and Soda Water 159. Coffee and chicory essence or coffee and 207. Drinking water and ice chicory extract 208. Soda water 160. Instant coffee or soluble coffee 161. Cocoa beans Syrups or Cordials 162. Cocoa nibs or cracked cocoa 163. Cocoa paste, cocoa mass, or cocoa slab 209. Fruit syrup or fruit cordial 164. Cocoa or cocoa powder 210. Fruit flavoured syrup or fruit flavoured 165. Soluble cocoa or beverage cocoa cordial 166. Chocolate 211. Artificial syrup or artificial cordial Vegetables and Vegetable Products Non-Alcoholic Drinlu 167. Vegetables 212. Fruit drink 168. Raw vegetables 213. Fruit nectar 169. Dehydrated vegetables or dried 214. Fruit flavoured drink vegetables 215. Artificial drink 170. Canned vegetables 216. Drink flavour or drink concentrate 171. Frozen vegetables 172. Frozen fried potatoes Alcoholic Drinlu 173. Tomato concentrate 217. ww·strength fermented drink 174. Vegetable juice 218. Beer 1 75. Protein products 219. Wine 220. Sparkling wine Fruit and Fruit Products 221. Dessert wine 176. Fruit 222. Wine·based drink 177. Raw fruit 223. Wine cocktail, vermouth, or wine aperitif 178. Fruit pulp 224. Wine liqueur 179. Dried fruit 225. Labelling of wine and wine products 180. Frozen fruit 226. Fruit wine, vegetable wine, and mead 1238 Food Regulations 1984 1984/262 227. Sparkling fruit wine and sparkling vege· 263. Powers of Medical Officer of Health in table wine respect of low·acid canned food 228. Fortified fruit wine and fortified vege' 264. Food irradiation table wine 265. Use of harmful containers prohibited 229. Flavoured fruit wine, flavoured vege· 266. Misuse of food containers table wine, fruit wine cocktail, vege· 267. Safety of articles table wine cocktail, aperitif fruit wine, 268. Identification of articles and aperitif vegetable wine 269. Labels on bottles containing food 230. Fruit wine liqueur and vegetable wine 270. Labels on milk bottles liqueur 27 I. Use of water, ice, and steam 231. Labelling of fruit wine and vegetable 272. Good manufacturing practice for low·acid wine and their products canned food 232. Combined fruit and vegetable wine 233. Spirits 234. liqueurs PART VI 235. General alcoholic drinks 236. Labelling of alcoholic drinks MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 273. Regulations not to apply to related pro· Special Purpo,e Food; ducts within meaning of Medicines Act 287. Special purpose foods 1981 and fees 288. Salt substitutes 274. Analyst's certificate 289. Gluten·free foods 275. Appeals 240. Carbohydrate modified foods 276. Offences and penalty 241. Low energy foods and reduced energy 27 7. Revocations foods 242. Infant formula PART VII 243. Supplementary foods for infants and young children TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 278. Expiry of this Part PART III 279. Mixed meals FOOl) NOT ELSEWHERE STANDARDISED 280. Labelling of bread 244. Food not elsewhere standardised 281. Corned, cured, or salted meat, and pickled meat PART IV 282. Manufactured meat 283. Jellied meat FOOD ADDITIVES 284. Meat extract, meat essence, or meat juice 245. General provisions 285. Canned fish 246. Labelling of food additives 286. Labelling of fish and fish products 247. Carry over of food additives 287. Labelling of milk and milk products 248. Preservatives 288. Cheese 249. Antioxidants 289. Dried cheese or powdered cheese 250. Colouring substances 290. Yoghurt 251. Artificial sweeteners 291. Rennet 252. Flavouring substances 292. Coffee and chicory 253. Food conditioners 293. Canned vegetables 254. Anticaking agents 294. Frozen apple 255. Propellants 295. Fruit juice 256. Gaseous racking agents 296. Concentrated fruit juice 257. Incidenta constituents 297.Jam and jelly 298. Fruit nectar PART V 299. Special purpose foods 300. Labelling of non·standard foods PROTEcrlON AND SAFETY OF FOOD 30 I. Preservatives 258. Importation of food 302. Antioxidants 259. Infected persons 303. Colouring substances 260. Persons in contact with infected person 304. Artificial sweeteners 261. Places ofrreparation, storage, and sale 305. Anticaking agents 262. Powers 0 Medical Officer of Health in 306. General transitional provisions respect of food generally Schedules REGULATIONS 1. Title and commencement-(l) These regulations may be cited as the Food Regulations 1984. (2) Except as provided in subclause (3) of this regulation, these regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of November 1984.