{"id":"F2025L00687","name":"Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods","slug":"australia-new-zealand-food-standards-code-schedule-25a-permitted-cell-cultured-foods","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":106464,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2025L00687-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods","content":"\n\nSchedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods\n\nThe Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand gives notice of the making of this Standard under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991. The Standard commences on the date of gazettal.\n\nDated 10 June 2025\n\n\n\nMatthew O’Mullane, General Manager, Food Safety \n\nDelegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand\n\nNote:\n\nThis Standard will be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. FSC 179 on 18 June 2025\\. This means that this date is the gazettal date for the purposes of the above notice.\n\n \n\nSchedule 25A Permitted cell-cultured foods\n\nNote 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.\n\nNote 2 The provisions of the Code that apply in New Zealand are incorporated in, or adopted under, the Food Act 2014 (NZ). See also section 1.1.1—3.\n\nNote 3 Division 3 of this Standard applies in Australia only.\n\nDivision 1 Preliminary\n\nS25A—1 Name\n\nThis Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods.\n\nNote Commencement: \nThis Standard commences on the date of gazettal, being the date specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.\n\nS25A—2 Definitions\n\nIn this Schedule,\n\ncell-cultured quail means quail cells obtained from culturing embryonic fibroblast cells sourced from Coturnix japonica.\n\nS25A—3 Permitted cell-cultured foods\n\nFor section 1.5.4—3, the permitted \\*cell-cultured foods are:\n\nPermitted cell-cultured foods\n\n```html\n
Permitted cell-cultured foods
Conditions
1.
Cell-cultured quail that is
(a)derived from the cell line 221523‑Fib-Quail; and
(b) detailed in application A1269
See Division 2 of this Standard.
\n```\n\nDivision 2 Cell-cultured quail\n\nS25A—4 Conditions on sale\n\n(1) Cell-cultured quail must not be a food for retail sale.\n\n(2) A food for retail sale may have cell-cultured quail as an ingredient.\n\nS25A—5 Labelling conditions\n\n(1) This section applies to a food for retail sale that has cell-cultured quail as an ingredient.\n\n(2) The label on the package of the food must not contain the phrase ‘poultry meat‘.\n\n(3) The labelling of the food must not contain the word ‘meat‘ other than in conjunction with the following:\n\n(a) the statement required by section 1.5.4—5;\n\n(b) a statement required by section 1.5.4—6.\n\n(4) Subparagraph 1.2.4—4(b)(iii) does not apply to the food.\n\nNote Subparagraph 1.2.4—4(b)(iii) permits the use of generic names specified in Schedule 10 to identify certain ingredients in a statement of ingredients, including the generic names ‘meat’ and ‘poultry meat’.\n\nDivision 3 Assessed cell lines\n\nS25A—6 Assessed cell line\n\nFor the definition of assessed cell line in section 3.4.1—2, the following cell lines are listed:\n\nAssessed cell lines\n\n```html\n
Cell line
1.
The cell line 221523-Fib-Quail.
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