New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

STOCK FOODS REGULATION 2010 - REG 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Regulation:

"label" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.

"manufactured stock food" means stock food that has undergone a manufacturing process, but does not include hay, straw, chaff or any stock food that consists entirely of milk or products derived from milk.

"MRL Standard" means the document entitled The MRL Standard Maximum residue limits in food and animal feedstuff being a document published in April 2010 by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, together with such amendments to that document as are from time to time published in the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Gazette.

Note : An up-to-date copy of The MRL Standard is provided on the website of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (at www.apvma.gov.au).

"restricted animal material" means tissue, blood or feathers derived from the carcass of an animal, including any substance produced from or containing any such tissue, blood or feathers (but does not include tallow or gelatin).

Note : Milk products are not regarded as restricted animal material as they are not tissue or blood derived from the carcass of an animal.

"ruminant" means an animal that has a rumen, and includes an animal belonging to any of the following classes of animal, namely, cattle, sheep, goats and deer.

"tallow" means any product (including, but not limited to, a product known as tallow, yellow grease or acid oil) that:

(a) contains rendered fats and oils from any animal, or contains used cooking oil that has subsequently been filtered or otherwise treated to remove visible particulate matter, and

(b) complies with a specification of 2 per cent maximum moisture plus insoluble impurities as measured in accordance with the official measuring methods of the American Oil Chemists' Society.

The official measuring methods of the American Oil Chemists' Society are available from their website: http://www.aocs.org.

"the Act" means the Stock Foods Act 1940 .

(2) Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.