South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts9—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.