WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/NZL/14/Corr.1*
14 March 2003
(03-1514)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Corrigendum
The following communication from New Zealand is being circulated in accordance with
Article 10.6.
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Item 6 Description of content:  should be replaced with the following revised wording:
The Draft Assessment Report for Proposal (P236) proposes to amend the Australia
New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code).
Sports foods in Australia and New Zealand are currently regulated by Standard 2.9.4 -
Formulated Supplementary Sports Foods in the Code.  Sports foods may also be regulated in NewZealand by the New Zealand Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 (NZDSR).  Many of these
products are available in Australia by virtue of the trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement
(TTMRA). During the development of Volume 2 of the Code, Standard R10 in Volume 1 of the Food
Standards Code (Volume 1) was transported into Volume 2 as Standard 2.9.4 without a full review of
Australian and New Zealand regulations for sports foods.
There are few international regulations governing sports foods and the proposed revised
Standard 2.9.4 would provide more consistency with both the NZDSR and regulations in othercountries.  The proposed compositional permissions and labelling requirements and permissions are
generally less stringent than the current Standard 2.9.4.
The sports food industry is relatively small compared to the general food supply and on a
world scale, the Australian and New Zealand markets are comparatively small.
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