Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 59

  (1)   For the purposes of section   120A of the Code, the following chemical products are prescribed:

  (aa)   any listed chemical product;

  (ab)   any reserved chemical product;

  (a)   any agricultural chemical product;

  (b)   an ingredient used in the manufacture of a chemical product if the ingredient:

  (i)   does not have a therapeutic or biological effect on a plant or animal; or

  (ii)   is a herb, or an oil extracted from a herb, the sole use of which is as a starting material for use in the manufacture of a chemical product;

  (c)   any product prepared in a research facility or pilot plant solely for experimental use;

  (d)   any veterinary homeopathic preparation that:

  (i)   is more dilute than a one thousandfold dilution of a mother tincture; and

  (ii)   is not required to be sterile;

  (e)   any skin cleanser or shampoo;

  (f)   any coat conditioner intended for external use only;

  (g)   any equine hoof protectant;

  (h)   any sheep branding substance;

  (i)   a substance of any of the following kinds that is intended to be added to stockfood:

  (i)   organic acids;

  (ii)   antioxidants;

  (iii)   pellet - binding products;

  (iv)   mould inhibitors;

  (v)   preservatives;

  (vi)   feed handling improvers;

  (vii)   colouring agents;

  (viii)   anticaking agents;

  (ix)   deodorising agents;

  (x)   flavours;

  (xi)   flavour enhancers;

  (xii)   sweeteners;

  (xiii)   aromatic substances;

  (xiv)   appetising substances.

Note:   Listed chemical products are specified in Schedule   3B and reserved chemical products are specified in Schedule   3C.

  (2)   In paragraph   (1)(d):

"mother tincture" means a liquid prepared by the process of solution, extraction or trituration.

"veterinary homeopathic preparation" means a preparation:

  (a)   formulated for use on the principle that it is capable of producing in a healthy animal symptoms similar to those which it is administered to alleviate; and

  (b)   prepared according to the practices of homeopathic pharmacy using the method of:

  (i)   serial dilution and succussion of a mother tincture in water, ethanol, aqueous ethanol or glycerol; or

  (ii)   serial trituration in lactose.