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Proposal P287 – Review of Cyclamate Permissions –Draft Assessment Report

4 July 2007

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this proposal.

NZFSA supports, subject to refining the dietary exposure assessment and including New Zealand children, Option 4 to reduce cyclamate permissions in water-based flavoured drinks and re-instate cyclamate permissions for tabletop sweeteners.

Before the Final Assessment NZFSA believes a dietary assessment on New Zealand children should be carried out to ensure that dietary consumption of foods containing cyclamate does not result in any public health and safety concerns from the levels of cyclamate permitted in a range of foods in the Code. This could be carried out at the same time as FSANZ refines the dietary exposure assessment using the data requested under 5.2.6 Additional data required.

The inclusion of tabletop sweeteners, under Option 4, will enable products manufactured in New Zealand that are currently sold as a dietary supplement to be sold under the Food Standards Code.

Yours sincerely