23Varying Australian content—food packaged in Australia

23 Varying Australian content—food packaged in Australia

This section applies to food to which section 22 applies (other than food grown, produced or made in a single overseas country) if the proportion by weight of the ingredients of the food varies over time. Despite section 22, the labelling of the food complies with this information standard if:

the labelling includes:

one of the appropriate marks under this section; and
any information, such as a barcode or other device, batch number, lot, date of manufacture or date mark, that is needed to enable a consumer to obtain information by a method in accordance with section 13; and

a consumer who follows the method indicated by the mark is able to find out:

the proportion by weight of Australian ingredients of the food in the package; and
if the period that was used to calculate the average specified in the mark does not appear on the labelling—that period.

If the average proportion by weight of the Australian ingredients of the food is at least 1%, the following are appropriate marks:

This label is a portrait rectangle shape. It contains the letters BC. The explanatory text underneath the bar chart reads Packed in Australia - ingredient sources vary - average P% Australian ingredients (how to get details). BC is the appropriate bar chart to represent P% of Australian ingredients and P%, in which P is a whole number, is not more than the average proportion by weight of the Australian ingredient of the food, [how to get details] is the identifying phrase for an information method that satisfies section 13. Packed may be replaced by Packaged. This label is a landscape rectangle shape. It contains the letters BC. The explanatory text underneath the bar chart reads Packed in Australia - ingredient sources vary - average P% Australian ingredients (how to get details). BC is the appropriate bar chart to represent P% of Australian ingredients and P%, in which P is a whole number, is not more than the average proportion by weight of the Australian ingredient of the food, [how to get details] is the identifying phrase for an information method that satisfies section 13. Packed may be replaced by Packaged. where:

‘BC’ is the appropriate bar chart to represent P% of Australian ingredients (see section 10); and
‘Packed’ may be replaced by ‘Packaged’; and
‘P%’, in which P is a whole number, is not more than the average proportion by weight of the Australian ingredients of the food; and
‘\[how to get details\]’ is the identifying phrase for an information method that satisfies section 13.

If the average proportion of the Australian ingredients of the food is less than 10%, the following are also appropriate marks:

This label is a portrait rectangle shape. It contains a 5% filled bar chart. The explanatory text underneath the bar chart reads Packed in Australia - ingredient sources vary - average less than 10% Australian ingredients [how to get details]. [how to get details] is the identifying phrase for an information method that satisfies section 13. Packed may be replaced by Packaged. where: