Guide to NATA food group definitions and testing classes

AQIS Imported Food – Appointed Analyst Guide to NATA Food Group Definitions and Testing Classes (useful in conjunction with Testing Capability Matrix and Conditions of Appointment – if you would like more information please visit the NATA website.)

Microbiological Food Group Definitions for the AQIS Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS)

Numbers in brackets after each food definition provides a guide to NATA’s food testing classes.

Cereal products

includes bread, flour products, flours or meals, wholegrain, wholemeal, bakery products, tapioca, pasta, malt extract, bakery products with fillings, sesame seeds, sesame seed products (8.11.01)

Nuts & Nut products

whether whole nuts, pieces, pastes, meals, in shell or not, whether raw, blanched or roasted, dried coconut, includes peanut, satay and other peanut sauces, peanut or pistachio biscuits, pastries, cakes, and any other peanut or pistachio products with greater than 30% peanuts or pistachios (8.11.02)

Dairy Products (including cheese)

includes milk, skim milk, cream, fermented milk products, yoghurt, butter, ice cream, dried milks, evaporated milks and condensed milks AND cheese which means the ripened or unripened solid or semi–solid milk product which may be coated and also includes processed cheese, curd (8.11.03)

Meat & Meat products

includes cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces, manufactured meat, meat flesh, meat pie, offal, processed meat, sausage, meat pastes, pate (8.11.04)

Poultry & Poultry products

includes cured and/or dried poultry flesh in whole cuts or pieces, manufactured poultry, poultry meat, poultry meat pie, offal, processed poultry, sausage (8.11.05)

Eggs & Egg products

egg products means the content of egg, as part or whole, in liquid, frozen or dried form, egg albumin and albuminates (8.11.06)

Fish, Crustaceans & Molluscs

includes any of the cold–blooded aquatic vertebrates and aquatic invertebrates including shellfish, but does include amphibians and reptiles, marinara mix (8.11.07)

Sugar products, Honey & Confectionery

includes dextrose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, glucose syrups, brown sugar, molasses, icing sugar, invert sugar, fruit sugar syrup, white chocolate, confectionery containing coconut and high fat content (8.11.11)

Vegetable & Vegetable products

includes peeled and/or cut vegetables and surface treated vegetables, preserved vegetables, includes all vegetable sprouts, also includes tofu (8.11.12)

Mixed foods

foods which contain a number of different ingredients but there is no particular characterising ingredient, e.g.: sauces, dry soup mixes, ice cream (8.11.20)

Herbs and spices

Herbs, Spices and dried vegetables used as seasonings whether whole, crushed or ground, consist of leaves, flowers, stems, roots, aromatic seeds berries or other fruits of plants used to flavour foods (8.11.27)

Other food products – Cocoa & Cocoa Products

cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa beans, shells, husks & skins, chocolate (8.11.49)

Water

includes mineral water (natural and artificial), or spring water, sweetened waters, unsweetened waters (8.70.11)

Chemical Food Group Definitions for the AQIS Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS)

Numbers in brackets after each food definition provides a guide to NATA’s food testing classes.

Cereal products

includes bread, flour products, flours or meals, wholegrain, wholemeal, bakery products, tapioca, pasta, malt extract, bakery products with fillings, also includes grains (7.51.01, 7.61.01)

Nuts & Nut products

whether whole nuts, pieces, pastes, meals, in shell or not, whether raw, blanched or roasted, dried coconut, includes peanut, satay and other peanut sauces, peanut or pistachio biscuits, pastries, cakes, and any other peanut or pistachio products with greater than 30% peanuts or pistachios (7.51.02)

Dairy Products including cheese

includes milk, skim milk, cream, fermented milk products, yoghurt, butter, ice cream, dried milks, evaporated milks and condensed milks and
Cheese which means the ripened or unripened solid or semi–solid milk product which may be coated and also includes processed cheese, curd (7.51.03)

Meat & Meat products

includes cured and/or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces, manufactured meat, meat flesh, meat pie, offal, processed meat, sausage, meat pastes, pate (includes Poultry & Poultry products cured and/or dried poultry flesh in whole cuts or pieces, manufactured poultry, poultry meat, poultry meat pie, offal, processed poultry, sausage) (7.51.04)

Fish, Crustaceans, Molluscs

includes any of the cold–blooded aquatic vertebrates and aquatic invertebrates including shellfish, but does include amphibians and reptiles, marinara mix (7.51.05)

Sugar and sugar products including honey

icing sugar, brown sugar (7.51.06)

Confectionery

includes dextrose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, glucose syrups, molasses, invert sugar, fruit sugar syrup, white chocolate, confectionery containing coconut and high fat content (7.51.07)

Fruit, jams & other fruit products

includes peeled and/or cut fruit and surface treated fruit, fresh or dried, preserved fruit; jam means the product prepared by processing one or more of fruit, sugars, fruit juice, concentrated fruit juice, and water extracts of fruit (7.51.08)

Vegetable & Vegetable products

includes peeled and/or cut vegetables and surface treated vegetables, preserved vegetables, includes all vegetable sprouts (7.51.09)

Alcoholic Beverages

includes beer, cider, fruit wine and/or vegetable wine or wine product, mead, perry, spirit, brandy and liqueur (7.51.10)

Soft Drinks & Cordials

includes brewed soft drink, electrolyte drink and drink base, fruit drink, non–alcoholic beverages, tea (7.51.11)

Juices & Concentrates

means the liquid portion, with/without pulp, obtained from fruit or vegetables, products that have been concentrated and also blends of more than one juice (7.51.12)

Edible Fats & Oils (including animal, vegetable and nut)

includes margarine (means the triglycerides of fatty acids of plant or animal origin e.g.: pig fat) also includes edible oil spreads, edible oil spread containing no less than 800 g/kg of edible oils (7.51.13, Oil seeds and by–products can also be listed under 7.61.02)

Other Food Products – confectionery, beverages, and bakery goods (7.51.49)

Other Food Products – seaweed (7.51.49)

Other Food Products – cocoa & cocoa products

cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa beans, shells, husks & skins, chocolate (7.51.49)

Other Food Products – sauces, mixed condiments and seasonings – herbs, spices and dried vegetables used as seasonings

whether whole, crushed or ground, consist of leaves, flowers, stems, roots, aromatic seeds berries or other fruits of plants used to flavour foods (7.51.49)

Other Food Products – soy sauce

includes soy sauce, soy sauce powders, oyster sauce (7.51.49)

Water

includes mineral water (natural and artificial), or spring water, sweetened waters, unsweetened waters (7.66.01)