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Case: Dietary supplements and natural medicines of plant origin for human consumption Effective 07 Jan 2020 to 01 Feb 2020

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.
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 the replacement or modification of parts of the anatomy in persons.