4Definitions

4 Definitions

Note 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) compliance agreement;
(b) food;
(c) recognised food safety management certificate;
(d) recognised foreign government certificate.

Note 2: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Imported Food Control Regulations 2019, including the following:

(a) Act;
(b) compliance agreement food;
(c) risk food;
(d) Scheme;
(e) surveillance food.

In this instrument:

beef means the flesh, bone, offal or any other tissue of an animal in the subfamily bovinae.

Note: The subfamily bovinae includes cattle, buffaloes and bison.

beef products means food prepared from or containing beef, but does not include gelatine, collagen, rendered fats, tallow or di‑calcium phosphate.

dried meat means meat that has been dried but does not include slow cured dried meat.

hermetically sealed container means a container that is airtight when sealed.

kava products means a food covered by paragraph 2.6.3—3(a) or (b) of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, as in force on 23 March 2022.

New Zealand product means food to which the Act applies that is produced in or imported into New Zealand, being food to which the Trans‑Tasman mutual recognition principle set out in Part 2 of the Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 applies.

poultry:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), includes fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons, pheasants, quails, guinea fowls, muttonbirds and other avian species ordinarily consumed as food by humans; and
(b) does not include ratites (for example, emus or ostriches).

poultry meat means the parts of a poultry carcass intended for human consumption.

processed meat means a food that:

(a) has, either singly or in combination with other foods, undergone a method of processing other than boning, slicing, dicing, mincing or freezing; and
(b) contains no less than 300 grams per kilogram of meat.

prohibited plants and fungi means prohibited plants and fungi specified in Schedule 23–Prohibited plants and fungi of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, as in force at the commencement of this definition.