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FOOD ACT 2003 - SECT 9
Meaning of "unsuitable" food
9 Meaning of "unsuitable" food
(1) For the purposes of this Act, food is
"unsuitable" if it is food that-- (a) is damaged, deteriorated or perished to
an extent that affects its reasonable intended use, or
(b) contains any
damaged, deteriorated or perished substance that affects its reasonable
intended use, or
(c) is the product of a diseased animal, or an animal that
has died otherwise than by slaughter, and has not been declared by or under
another Act to be safe for human consumption, or
(d) contains a biological or
chemical agent, or other matter or substance, that is foreign to the nature of
the food.
(2) However, food is not
"unsuitable" for the purposes of this Act merely because-- (a) at any
particular time before it is sold for human consumption it contains an
agricultural or veterinary chemical, or
(b) when it is sold for human
consumption it contains an agricultural or veterinary chemical, so long as it
does not contain the chemical in an amount that contravenes the
Food Standards Code, or
(c) it contains a metal or non-metal contaminant
(within the meaning of the Food Standards Code) in an amount that does not
contravene the permitted level for the contaminant as specified in the
Food Standards Code, or
(d) it contains any matter or substance that is
permitted by the Food Standards Code.
(3) In this section,
"slaughter" of an animal includes the killing of an animal in the process of
capturing, taking or harvesting it for the purposes of preparing it for use as
food.
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