Victorian Current Acts

FOOD ACT 1984 - SECT 4A

    (1)     In this Act, "food "includes—

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

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

        (c)     any substance used in preparing a substance or thing referred to in paragraph (a) (other than a substance used in preparing a living thing) if it comes into direct contact with the substance or thing referred to in that paragraph, such as a processing aid;

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

        (e)     any substance or thing declared to be a food under a declaration in force under section 3B of the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991 of the Commonwealth.

    (2)     A substance, thing, chewing gum or ingredient or additive in chewing gum described in subsection (1) is food regardless of whether or not it is in a condition fit for human consumption.

    (3)     However, food does not include a therapeutic good.

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

S. 4B inserted by No. 14/2001 s. 5.