✨ Food Standards Definitions
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 49 — 8 MAY 2015
New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.
2.2.1—2 Definitions
Note In this Code (see section 1.1.2—3):
cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces includes any attached bone.
dried meat means meat that has been dried but does not include slow cured dried meat.
manufactured meat means processed meat containing no less than 660 g/kg of meat.
meat
(a) means the whole or part of the carcass of any of the following animals, if slaughtered other than in a wild state:
(i) buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit or sheep;
(ii) any other animal permitted for human consumption under a law of a State, Territory or New Zealand; and
(b) does not include:
(i) fish; or
(ii) avian eggs; or
(iii) foetuses or part of foetuses.
meat flesh means meat that consists of skeletal muscle and any attached:
(a) animal rind; or
(b) fat; or
(c) connective tissue; or
(d) nerve; or
(e) blood; or
(f) blood vessels; or
(g) skin, in the case of poultry.
meat pie means a pie containing no less than 250 g/kg of meat flesh.
offal includes blood, brain, heart, kidney, liver, pancreas, spleen, thymus, tongue and tripe, and excludes meat flesh, bone and bone marrow.
processed meat means a food which has, either singly or in combination with other foods, undergone a method of processing other than boning, slicing, dicing, mincing or freezing.
sausage means a food that:
(a) consists of meat that has been minced, meat that has been comminuted, or a mixture of both, whether or not mixed with other foods, and which has been encased or formed into discrete units; and
(b) does not include meat formed or joined into the semblance of cuts of meat.
Division 2 Requirements for sale
2.2.1—3 Requirement for food sold as sausage
A food that is sold as sausage must be sausage and:
(a) contain no less than 500 g/kg of fat free meat flesh; and
(b) have a proportion of fat that is no more than 500 g/kg of the fat free meat flesh content.
2.2.1—4 Requirement for food sold as meat pie
A food that is sold as a meat pie must be a meat pie.
2.2.1—5 Requirements for food sold as dried meat or cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces, manufactured meat or processed meat
(1) A food that is sold as a dried meat must be dried to a water activity of no more than 0.85.
(2) A food that is sold as cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces must contain not less than 160 g/kg of meat protein on a fat free basis.
(3) A food that is sold as manufactured meat must contain not less than 660 g/kg of meat.
(4) A food that is sold as processed meat must contain not less than 300 g/kg of meat.
Division 3 Information requirements
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