1Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods

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Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods

The 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.

Dated 10 June 2025

The Signature of the delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Matthew O’Mullane, General Manager, Food Safety 

Delegate of the Board of Food Standards Australia New Zealand

Note:

This 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.

Schedule 25A Permitted cell-cultured foods

Note 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.

Note 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.

Note 3 Division 3 of this Standard applies in Australia only.

Division 1 Preliminary

S25A—1 Name

This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 25A – Permitted cell-cultured foods.

Note Commencement:
This 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.

S25A—2 Definitions

In this Schedule,

cell-cultured quail means quail cells obtained from culturing embryonic fibroblast cells sourced from Coturnix japonica.

S25A—3 Permitted cell-cultured foods

For section 1.5.4—3, the permitted *cell-cultured foods are:

Permitted cell-cultured foods

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