The standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code are legislative instruments under the Legislation Act 2003. The authoritative versions of these standards are on the Australian Government Federal Register of Legislation or via the links below.
You can access Food Standards Gazette notices here.
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FSANZ does not provide advice on compliance with the Code. Read the list of agencies and departments responsible for enforcement.
Accessing the standards
The PDF file for each standard on the Legislation Register site is the authoritative legal version. To access the PDF (or Word version), once you open the Legislation Register page for each standard via the links below, click on the link to the latest compilation of a standard (displayed with the tick), then click the 'Download' tab in the light blue ribbon on the page, the downloadable documents will then appear.
You can also access related documents such as previous versions of the standard or related explanatory statements via these links.
Some non-PC devices, including certain phones or tablets (depending on the reader program or app used), may read symbols incorrectly in Word and possibly HTML. For example, FSANZ has used the Greek letter ‘mu’ in a number of standards as a recognised international symbol indicating ‘micrograms’. However, it may display incorrectly as an odd-looking ‘m’, making a measurement read as ‘milligrams’. Please use the definitive legal PDF versions, where the problem will generally not occur on most devices.
Accessing the Code
We don't sell hard copies of the Code. You can download individual standards from the Legislation Register website for free below, or you can purchase a copy of the Code from SAI Global.
Please note that compilations for the Code are registered on the Legislation Register as soon as possible after any amendments take effect. Where there is a delay in the date of effect following gazettal, to assist stakeholders until the relevant compilations are registered, FSANZ provides updated standards where applicable, but these versions are for information only and are not to be treated as authoritative versions of the standards.