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The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has completed a review of the Food Regulations and proposes the following amendments: a) To include a requirement that products labelled as "organic" (or similar terms) must be certified as organic under an inspection and certification system that complies with the Codex Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods, GL 32-1999; or equivalent; b) To allow the use of the sweetening agent Advantame in food under good manufacturing practice; c) To include "veterinary drugs" under the definition or "Incidental constituents" (Regulation 29), and to include a definition for "veterinary drugs"; d) To prohibit the import, sale and advertisement of raw milk for direct human consumption; e) To allow the use of Bovine lactoferrin in infant formula, up to a maximum permitted level of 100mg/100ml; f) To allow the use of the generic term "Modified Starches", if referring to the following modified starches, for labelling purposes: o Dextrin roasted starch, Acid-treated starch, Alkaline-treated starch, Bleached starch, Oxidised starch, Enzyme-treated starch, Monostarch phosphate, Distarch phosphate, Phosphated distarch phosphate, Acetylated distarch phosphate, Starch acetate, Acetylated distarch adipate, Hydroxypropyl starch, Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate, Starch sodium octenyl succinate, Acetylated oxidised starch; g) To make editorial amendments to existing regulations 9, 12, 30(3) and 38, to update the terms used, as well as to spell out the provisions in a clearer format.
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