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Weight change factors
Weight change factors Weight changes the nutrition information panel The cooking process may change the weight of the recipe's ingoing ingredients, due to gains and/or losses in both water and/or fat. You need to take this weight change into account when producing a nutrition information panel.
About weight change factors Weight change factors can be either negative (such as where a food loses moisture during cooking) or positive (such as where a dried legume absorbs water during…Published 30 September 2025
Specific gravities
Specific gravities Here we detail the specific gravities of a selection of beverages and other liquid foods.
Specific gravity and ingredients If you have a liquid ingredient, the specific gravity value is used to convert the volume of this liquid ingredient to a gram weight. The NPC does this automatically by multiplying the volume (in mL) by the specific gravity of the liquid ingredient. It needs to do this to calculate a nutrition information panel correctly. Specific gravity and the nutrition…Published 30 September 2025
Allergen labelling for food businesses
Allergen labelling for food businesses A food allergy occurs when a person's immune system reacts to certain food and ingredients and can cause allergic reactions including anaphylaxis. Other immune reactions can also occur in response to food, such as in Coeliac disease. Substances such as sulphites can also cause adverse health reactions for some people with asthma. This is why the Food Standards Code requires certain food and substances to be declared when they are present in a food as ingredients including food additives or processing aids. Download our allergen labelling poster…
Published 30 September 2025
NPC Downloadable files and supporting documents terms and conditions
NPC Downloadable files and supporting documents terms and conditions The Nutrition Panel Calculator (NPC) uses data sourced from published Australian food composition databases and is licensed on the condition that you agree to the terms and conditions below. You can access the calculator by accepting the agreement below after reading the terms and conditions carefully. If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions, click Cancel. You will return to the FSANZ home page. Disclaimer FSANZ makes the Nutrition Panel…
Published 30 September 2025
About the NPC
About the NPC The Nutrition Panel Calculator (NPC) can help you create a Nutrition Information Panel (NIP) for your food label. Learn about its history, foods and nutrients in the database, key terms and information about how the data is reported. Foods in the NPC The NPC is supported by a dataset of common foods which can be used as ingredients when creating an NIP. More details about the dataset is on the Foods in the NPC page. Nutrients in the NPC The NPC can be used to create an NIP which includes values for the seven mandatory components…
Published 30 September 2025
Microbiological limits for food (Standard 1.6.1 and Schedule 27)
Microbiological limits for food (Standard 1.6.1 and Schedule 27) NOTE: This standard applies to both Australia and New Zealand. Standard 1.6.1 Microbiological limits in food aims to prevent foodborne illness from food containing unsafe levels of microorganisms. The standard sets out how to determine whether a specific lot of food has an unacceptable level of microorganisms. Maximum permissible limits for particular microorganisms in different food groups are listed in the accompanying Schedule 27. In addition to the standard, FSANZ has developed guideline levels for certain other microorganisms and foods. These can be accessed in our…
Published 30 September 2025
Agents of Foodborne Illness
Agents of Foodborne Illness Agents of Foodborne Illness is a technical series for the food industry, food safety consultants and food regulators. It contains information about pathogens that cause foodborne illness including:
- growth and survival characteristics
- symptoms of disease
- virulence factors
- epidemiological data including a summary of large, well-document outbreaks
- occurrence in food
- susceptible populations
- dose-response relationship.
Published 30 September 2025
NPC user guide
NPC user guide This guide gives you details on how to use the Nutrition Panel Calculator (NPC). Learn how to create recipes, add ingredients and define other aspects of your recipe to produce a Nutrition Information Panel (NIP). On this page
Nutrients in the NPC
Nutrients in the NPC Learn about the nutrients included in the Nutrition Panel Calculator (NPC) and where the data is sourced from. On this page
- Nutrients reported in the NPC
- How carbohydrates are defined and calculated
- How energy is defined and calculated
- How fat and saturated fat data are derived
- How sodium data is derived
- How protein data is derived
- How sugars data is derived
Published 30 September 2025