Please note: On 8 August 2023, the Department of Health gazetted a notice extending the deadline for input to 21 September 2023.
Input is sought within three months on a third set of draft foodstuffs labelling and advertising regulations to be gazetted this year. According to Page 311 of the latest draft, the document replaces one released in January for public comment. The status of a draft gazetted on 14 April is not clear.
Once in force, the proposed new regulations will repeal those gazetted in December 1991, November 2010 and January 2012. Why the existing regulations are to be replaced instead of amended is also not clear. An explanatory note would have been helpful.
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