AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND FOOD REGULATION MINISTERIAL COUNCIL AND 20 JUNE 2008 FOOD MINISTERS REQUEST A REVIEW OF DRAFT STANDARD 1.2.7 – – NUTRITION, HEALTH AND RELATED CLAIMS THAT HAS RESULTED FROM PROPOSAL 293 NUTRITION HEALTH AND RELATED CLAIMS – The Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council (Ministerial Council) has requested that Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) review draft Standard - Nutrition, Health and Related Claims that has resulted from Proposal 293 – – Nutrition, Health and Related Claims. Proposal 293 aims to provide regulatory arrangements for nutrition, health and related claims, to expand the range of permitted claims, to ensure products carrying nutrition content and health claims provide adequate information for consumers and to prevent misleading or deceptive claims on food labels or in food advertising. The Criteria/Ground/s for the review of draft Standard 1.2.7 Nutrition, Health and – Related Claims are that: It is not consistent with existing policy guidelines set by the Ministerial Council: The standard is not consistent with certain principles in the Ministerial Policy Guideline for Nutrition, Health and Related Claims which states that: any intervention by government should support government, community and industry (Policy Principle 3); initiatives that promote healthy food choices by the population” any intervention by government should be consistent with and complement Australian and New Zealand national policies and legislation including those relating to nutrition and health promotion, fair trading, industry growth and international trade and innovation” (Policy Principle 4); any intervention by government should contain a process of substantiation which aligns levels of scientific evidence with the level of claims along the theoretical continuum of ((Policy Principle 6); claims, and at minimum costs to the community any intervention by government should allow for effective monitoring and enforcement (Policy Principle 9); (Policy the system should favour pre-market approval rather that post-market reaction Principle 10); claims can be made providing the claim is socially responsible and does not promote - (Claims pre-requisites); and irresponsible food consumption patterns - claims can be made providing the eligibility criteria, including qualifying and/or disqualifying criteria (and any excluded categories of foods, such as alcohol and infant (Claims pre-requisites). foods), are complied with
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FOOD REGULATION MINISTERIAL COUNCIL 20 JUNE 2008 FOOD MINISTERS REQUEST A REVIEW OF DRAFT STANDARD – 1.2.7 – NUTRITION, HEALTH AND RELATED CLAIMS THAT HAS RESULTED FROM PROPOSAL 293 – NUTRITION HEALTH AND RELATED CLAIMS The Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council (Ministerial Council) has requested that Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) review draft Standard - Nutrition, Health and Related Claims – that has resulted from Proposal 293 – Nutrition, Health and Related Claims. Proposal 293 aims to provide regulatory arrangements for nutrition, health and related claims, to expand the range of permitted claims, to ensure products carrying nutrition content and health claims provide adequate information for consumers and to prevent misleading or deceptive claims on food labels or in food advertising. The Criteria/Ground/s for the review of draft Standard 1.2.7 – Nutrition, Health and Related Claims are that: It is not consistent with existing policy guidelines set by the Ministerial Council: The standard is not consistent with certain principles in the Ministerial Policy Guideline for Nutrition, Health and Related Claims which states that: any intervention by government should support government, community and industry initiatives that promote healthy food choices by the population” (Policy Principle 3); any intervention by government should be consistent with and complement Australian and New Zealand national policies and legislation including those relating to nutrition and health promotion, fair trading, industry growth and international trade and innovation” (Policy Principle 4); any intervention by government should contain a process of substantiation which aligns levels of scientific evidence with the level of claims along the theoretical continuum of claims, and at minimum costs to the community ((Policy Principle 6); any intervention by government should allow for effective monitoring and enforcement (Policy Principle 9); the system should favour pre-market approval rather that post-market reaction (Policy Principle 10); - claims can be made providing the claim is socially responsible and does not promote irresponsible food consumption patterns (Claims pre-requisites); and - claims can be made providing the eligibility criteria, including qualifying and/or disqualifying criteria (and any excluded categories of foods, such as alcohol and infant foods), are complied with (Claims pre-requisites).