S.L. 449.32 Art. 3Interpretation. Cap. 449.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Food Safety Act;

"analysis" means a microbiological or chemical analysis or any other analysis carried out for ensuring compliance with any provision of the Act and of any regulations made thereunder; "authorised officer" has the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Act; "examination" means a physical or organoleptic examination or other examination carried out for ensuring compliance with any provision of the Act, and of any regulation made thereunder; "food analyst" means any person so suitably qualified to the satisfaction of the health authority and, where the person is a public officer, any person appointed by the Minister to act as food analyst on behalf of the health authority and includes any other person appointed under regulation 8 to act as a food analyst and any person acting as a food analyst on behalf of an official laboratory as established under article 10 of the Act; "food examiner" means any person who is so suitably qualified, to the satisfaction of the health authority, to carry out food examinations for the purposes of these regulations, and food examination shall be construed to mean the examination of food for the purpose of providing visual or other indicative evidence of compliance with the provisions of the Act; "lot" means a batch of units of food for sale that have been produced, manufactured or packaged under the same or similar conditions;

"representative sample" means such portion as would allow repeated analysis but in no case shall such sample exceed 10% of an item or lot; "sampling" means the act of selecting a certain portion, number of containers or product units from a particular lot of the same food or any other substance referred to in regulation 2.