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Case: Dietary supplements and natural medicines of plant origin for human consumption Effective 13 May 2022 to 01 Jul 2022

Glossary

The following provides a definition of words or phrases that are found within the text. Some of these have a special meaning in relation to the importation or treatment of goods entering Australia and may be important to understand in meeting the requirements for import.

Term Definition
Approved Arrangement Site (AA Site)

An arrangement approved under Section 406 of the Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cwlth) which permits a biosecurity industry participant to carry out specified activities to manage biosecurity risks associated with particular goods, premises or other things.
commercially packaged

See Commercially prepared and packaged
Commercially prepared and packaged

Commercially prepared and packaged goods must contain information about the product either on a label or on commercial documentation accompanying the goods e.g. a commercial invoice.

Handwritten or handmade labels (for example: labels made of fabric/leather/metal/crafty material/handwritten on a label) are not acceptable. Package must be tamper evident or tamper resistant.

The following information must be included:

  1. Name or description of the goods,
  2. A list of all the ingredients or components (if multiple),
  3. Country where the goods were made or produced,
  4. The quantity of the package contents (weight, volume, count), AND  

  5. At least one of the other components from the below list:

    • Name and address of the manufacturer or supplier of the goods,
    • Serial, batch or lot identification numbers,
    • Branding information (including marks numerals or symbols),
    • Date marking information,
    • Bar codes, Universal Product Codes, and RFID labels,
    • Nutrition information,
    • Directions for use and storage conditions.

Note: Refer to Attachments 1 (Acceptable packaging) and 2 (Unacceptable packaging) for examples of packaging.
human therapeutic

Under Section 3 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, therapeutic use means use in or in connection with:

  1. preventing, diagnosing, curing or alleviating a disease, ailment, defect or injury in persons, or
  2. influencing, inhibiting or modifying a physiological process in persons, or
  3. testing the susceptibility of persons to a disease or ailment, or
  4. influencing, controlling or preventing conception in persons, or
  5. testing for pregnancy in persons, or
  6. the replacement or modification of parts of the anatomy in persons.
ready for retail

An imported good is considered retail packaged if it has been commercially prepared and packaged overseas and is in a final state that requires no further processing, packaging or labelling prior to retail sale or consumer use in Australia.
retail packaging

An imported good is considered retail packaged if it has been commercially prepared and packaged overseas and is in a final state that requires no further processing, packaging or labelling prior to retail sale or consumer use in Australia.