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Glossary Item

Meat : meat

Effective 26 May 2023

Preferred Term: meat

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Definition:

Meat means a part of an animal (other than a fish, a mollusc, a crustacean, a cnidarian, an echinoderm or a tunicate) that is intended or able to be used as food by a human being or an animal (whether or not it is cooked, dried or otherwise processed).

Meat includes blood, bone meal, meat meal, tallow and fat.