Group Standards for Food Additives and Fragrance Materials

The Environmental Risk Management Authority has issued group standards for food additives and fragrance materials.

These group standards are issued in accordance with the requirements of Part 6A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996. The group standards came into force on 1 July 2006.

The Food Additives and Fragrance Materials Group Standards have been created for the following materials:

  • food additives - materials not usually consumed as a food by itself that is purposefully added to food in order to affect the food's keeping quality, texture, consistency, appearance, odour, taste, alkalinity or acidity, or to serve any other technological function in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging or storage of the food, and includes any preservative, antioxidant, colouring substance, artificial sweetener, flavouring substance, food conditioner, anti-caking agent, vitamin, mineral or processing aid;
  • fragrance compounds - blends of fragrance ingredients representing a specific fragrance formula, including any solvent or carrier;
  • fragrance ingredient - ingredients used in the manufacture of fragrance materials for its odorous, odour-enhancing or blending properties. Fragrance ingredients may be obtained by chemical synthesis from synthetic, fossil or natural raw materials or by physical operations from natural sources and include aroma chemicals, essential oils, natural extracts, distillates and isolates, and oleoresins.

Group Standards

Site and Storage Conditions of the Group Standards

Correction

Supporting Information

Consultation

Consultation on Food Additives and Fragrance Materials Group Standards has closed. The final group standards listed above differ significantly from the original documents sent out for consultation in November 2005. The original group standard consultation documents can be obtained by contacting us at hsinfo@ermanz.govt.nz or call 0800 376 234

Further Information

If you have any queries on group standards, how they work and what they mean for you or your business or organisation, you can email us at: hsinfo@ermanz.govt.nz or call 0800 376 234