1 Introduction This Application seeks to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code) to include an analytical method for the determination of resistant starch as a specifically named fibre in food. It has been requested that AOAC Official Method 2002.02 (Resistant Starch in Starch and Plant Materials) is added to Schedule 11 Calculation of – values for nutrition information panel in S11—4 Methods of analysis for dietary fibre and other fibre content. S11—4 currently does not include a prescribed method of analysis for resistant starch. 2 Assessment of resistant starch as dietary fibre as defined in the Code In order to assess the Application it is necessary to determine if resistant starch fulfils the definition of dietary fibre in Standard 1.1.2 Definitions used throughout the Code: – Dietary fibre means that fraction of the edible part of plants or their extracts, or synthetic analogues that:
1 Introduction This Application seeks to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code) to include an analytical method for the determination of resistant starch as a specifically named fibre in food. It has been requested that AOAC Official Method 2002.02 (Resistant Starch in Starch and Plant Materials) is added to Schedule 11 – Calculation of values for nutrition information panel in S11—4 Methods of analysis for dietary fibre and other fibre content. S11—4 currently does not include a prescribed method of analysis for resistant starch. 2 Assessment of resistant starch as dietary fibre as defined in the Code In order to assess the Application it is necessary to determine if resistant starch fulfils the definition of dietary fibre in Standard 1.1.2 – Definitions used throughout the Code: Dietary fibre means that fraction of the edible part of plants or their extracts, or synthetic analogues that:
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