Health (Adoption of Food Standards Code) Amendment Regulations 1992 (WA)

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HEALTH ACT 1911

HEALTH (ADOPTION OF FOOD STANDARDS CODE) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1992

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council on the advice of the

Food Advisory Committee.

Citation

1, These regulations may be cited as the Health (Adoption of Food Standards

Code) Amendment Regulations 1992.

Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which Part 5 of the

Health Amendment Act 1991 comes into operation.

Health (Adoption of Food Standards Code)
Regulations 1992 amended

3. The Schedule to the Health (Adoption of Food Standards Code) Regulations

1992* is amended by inserting after item 7 the following item —

7A C Insert after Standard C5 the following —

C6 — GAME MEAT AND GAME MEAT

PRODUCTS

Interpretation

L In this Standard —

"game animal" means buffa'o,	camel, goat, kangaroo, pig or
rabbit;

"game meat" means the whole or

part of the carcass (including
offal) of any game animal thathas been field-slaughtered in

the wild state, but does not

casing or formed by other

include foetuses, pouch young

or animals found dead in

traps;

"game meat flesh" means the	skeletal muscle of any game
animal, with or without the
accompanying and overlying
fat, together with theconnective tissue, nerve and
blood vessels that ordinarily
accompany the muscle tissue
from it in the process ofand that are not separated
preparation;
"game meat products" are	mixtures of game meat flesh
with any permitted food
additives and with other foods
excluding meat;

"game sausage" means game

sausage meat enclosed in a

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means into a cylindrical or
other like shape;

"game sausage meat" means game

meat flesh that has been
comminuted and mixed with
meal or flour derived from any
one or more of cereals,
potatoes, soya beans or edible

starch, with or without gluten.

Restrictions and prohibitions

2. (1) Game meat offal must not be

sold as food or used in the preparation of

food.

slaughtered animals other than game	(2) Meat derived from field-
animals must not be	sold for human
consumption.
(3)	Game meat flesh and game meat

products must not be mixed with meat
other than game meat.

(4) Game meat shall be derived onl

from game animals that are in good healt

and condition at the time of killing.

Frozen and thawed game meat flesh

3.      Game meat is to be taken as

(a) frozen, when its temperature

has been reduced to, andmaintained at, below -2°C; and

(b)	thawed, when, having been
frozen, its temperature has risen above -2°C.

Game sausage meat and game

sausages

4, (1) Subject to this Standard, game

sausage meat

(a) may have added to it any of

the foods permitted in sausage

meat in Standard Cl;

(b) may be treated with smoke

from untreated hardwood; and

(c) must meet the fat free meat

and fat level requirements of

Standard Cl in relation to
sausage meat,

as if references in Standard Cl to "sausage
meat" and "meat flesh" were references to
"game sausage meat" and "game meat

flesh", respectively.

(2) The nitrogen content of the meal

or flour referred to in the definition of

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"game sausage meat" in clause 1 must not

exceed 45 g/kg.

(3) Sulphur dioxide may be added to

game sausage meat to a level not exceeding

500 mg/kg if the game meat flesh content
of the game sausage meat does not exceed

900 g/kg.

Premixes for use in making game
sausage meat

Game meat premixes are premixes

which correspond to premixes for use in
making sausage meat, and the provisions of
Standard Cl applying to sausage meat premixes apply to game sausage meat
premixes as if references to "sausage meat"
in those provisions were references to
"game sausage meat".

Edible casings

(1) Edible casings for use in the

preparation of sausages as specified in

Standard Cl may be used in thepreparation of game sausages.

(2) The requirements set out in

re'ation to edible casings in Standard Cl
apply in this Standard as if references to
"sausages" in Standard Cl were references

to "game sausages".

Corned, cured, pickled or
salted game meat

7.      Corned game meat, cured game meat,

pickled game meat or salted game meat is
a game meat product which corresponds to
the equivalent meat product referred to in
Standard Cl, and the provisions in that
Standard applying to corned meat, cured

meat, pickled meat or salted meat apply tothat game meat product as if references in

those provisions to "meat" were references

to "game meat flesh".

Labelling

(1) The names by which foods are

defined or described in this Standard are

declared not to be prescribed names.

(2) The word "GAME" must be

included as part of the appropriate

designation in the label on or attached to a

package containing game meat flesh or a

game meat product.

(3) There must be written in the label

on or attached to a package containing, and
displayed clearly in any advertisement relating to, game meat flesh or a game
meat product the type of game animal from
which the game meat flesh or game meat
product has been prepared.

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(4) There must be written in standard

type of 3 mm in the label on or attached to
a package containing game meat flesh, or a
game meat product, which has been thawed

word "TflAWED", or a word or words of

similar effect, immediately preceding or

following the appropriate designation.

If game meat flesh or a game meat product is displayed for sale otherwise than

(5)

in a package everything required by this

Standard to be written in the label on or

attached to a package of game meat flesh

or a game meat product, including labellin

requirements incorporated in this Standar
by reference, must be written in a label

displayed on or in connection with the

game meat flesh or game meat product in

J.ettering of not less than 9 mm.

(6) Except as otherwise provided in

this clause, game meat flesh and game
meat products must comply with thelabelling requirements of the corresponding
meat and meat products in Standard Cl as
if references in that Standard to meat and
meat products were references to game

meat flesh and game meat products. ". ".

[* Published in the Gazette of 15 May 1992 at pp. 1978-1987.]

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.