Throughout the development of the Not all plain (nothing added) frozen HSR system, the Technical Design vegetables score a HSR of 5 stars. Working Group and Front of Pack This is inconsistent with the ADG Labelling Project Committee which recommends individuals concluded that giving all vegetables a Rejected: application is No further a wide variety of nutritious 5 star rating would impact on ratings 2014-7 21-Oct-14 17-Feb-15 “enjoy deemed not an anomaly. action. foods from [the] five food groups for other food products and create a everyday [including] plenty of lack of differentiation for many vegetables of different types and processed foods. It would also alter the scores of other products within colours”. Category 2 other foods. – Products that contain both dairy and non-dairy components [such as When cheese and crackers are cheese and crackers], but do not meet presented in a single package, the the requirements to be categorised as crackers usually comprise more than a category 2D food because they Rejected: application is 25% of the product. The HSRAC No further 2015-1 2-Jan-15 contain more than 25% non-dairy 17-Feb-15 deemed not an anomaly. therefore agreed that the product action. food, receive a low HSR score that is should not be categorised as a dairy not representative of the combined product, rather it falls into Category 2 food nor comparable to products that other foods. – may be considered 'comparable' products.
2014-7 21-Oct-14 Not all plain (nothing added) frozen vegetables score a HSR of 5 stars. This is inconsistent with the ADG which recommends individuals “enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from [the] five food groups everyday [including] plenty of vegetables of different types and colours”. 17-Feb-15 Rejected: application is deemed not an anomaly. Throughout the development of the HSR system, the Technical Design Working Group and Front of Pack Labelling Project Committee concluded that giving all vegetables a 5 star rating would impact on ratings for other food products and create a lack of differentiation for many processed foods. It would also alter the scores of other products within Category 2 – other foods. No further action. 2015-1 2-Jan-15 Products that contain both dairy and non-dairy components [such as cheese and crackers], but do not meet the requirements to be categorised as a category 2D food because they contain more than 25% non-dairy food, receive a low HSR score that is not representative of the combined food nor comparable to products that may be considered 'comparable' products. 17-Feb-15 Rejected: application is deemed not an anomaly. When cheese and crackers are presented in a single package, the crackers usually comprise more than 25% of the product. The HSRAC therefore agreed that the product should not be categorised as a dairy product, rather it falls into Category 2 – other foods. No further action.
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