Australia Food Standards Code Standard 1.1.1 Structure of the Code and General Provisions 1.1.1-10(6)-(7A): s 1.1.1-10(6) to (7A) Add food additives, nutritive substances, processing aids and restricted ingredients only as the Code permits

Unless the Code expressly permits it, food for sale does not contain as an ingredient or component a substance used as a food additive, nutritive substance or processing aid; in Australia any detectable agvet chemical or its metabolite or degradation product; a prohibited or restricted plant or fungus or coca bush; a novel food (retail sale); a cell-cultured food; a GM food; an irradiated food; kava; raw apricot kernels; or, for retail sale, caffeine from any source. Substances present by natural occurrence are exempt (caffeine from cocoa, chocolate, coffee or tea is natural; added caffeine and caffeine from guarana extract are not). Permissions are in Standards 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.5.1 to 1.5.3, 2.6.2, 2.6.3 and 2.9.1 to 2.9.5.