Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “animal by-products” means entire bodies or parts of animals, products of animal origin or other products obtained from animals, which are not intended for human consumption,

• “composite products” means a foodstuff intended for human consumption that contains both processed products of animal origin and products of plant origin,

• “food” and “foodstuff” have the same meaning as they have in Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety^f1,

• “products derived from animal by-products” means products obtained from one or more treatments, transformations or steps of processing of animal by-products,

• “products from a susceptible animal” means any of the following, consisting in whole or in part, of a body of a susceptible animal, or derived from a susceptible animal—

  1. (a)

     products of animal origin,

  2. (b)

     composite products, or

  3. (c)

     products derived from animal by-products,

• “products of animal origin” means food of animal origin, including blood,

• “susceptible animal” means cattle, a sheep, goat, deer, camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, vicuna, any other ruminant, any swine (that is a member of the suborder Suina of the order Artiodactyla), or an elephant,

• “territory subject to special transitional import arrangements” means—

  1. (a)

     an EEA state,

  2. (b)

     the Faroe Islands,

  3. (c)

     Greenland, or

  4. (d)

     Switzerland.