Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOOD STANDARDS AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND ACT 1991 - SECT 5

  (1)   Food includes:

  (a)   any substance or thing of a kind used, capable of being used, or represented as being for use, for human consumption (whether it is live, raw, prepared or partly prepared); and

  (b)   any substance or thing of a kind used, capable of being used, or represented as being for use, as an ingredient or additive in a substance or thing referred to in paragraph   ( a); and

  (c)   any substance used in preparing a substance or thing referred to in paragraph   ( a); and

  (d)   chewing gum or an ingredient or additive in chewing gum, or any substance used in preparing chewing gum; and

  (e)   any substance or thing declared to be a food under a declaration in force under section   6 .

(It does not matter whether the substance, thing or chewing gum is in a condition fit for human consumption.)

  (2)   However, food does not include a therapeutic good within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 .

  (3)   To avoid doubt, food may include live animals and plants.