S.L. 449.25 ст. 2lnterpretation.

In these regulation unless the context otherwise requires:

"approved packing establishment" means a packing establishment where aquaculture and coastal fish products are packed, chilled or stored, insofar as the establishment complies with these regulations and has been inspected and approved by the Director;

"approved processing establishment" means a processing establishment where chilled or frozen fishery products undergo a chemical or physical process such as heating, smoking, salting, dehydration or marinating, or any other process insofar as the establishment complies with these regulations and has been inspected and approved by the Director; "aquaculture products" means all fishery products born and raised in controlled conditions until placed on the market as foodstuff. Fish caught in their natural environment when juvenile and kept in fattening units until they reach the desired commercial size for human consumption, are also considered aquaculture products. However, they are not considered so if the fish are merely kept alive to be sold at a later date without any attempt being made to increase their size or weight; "batch" means the quantity of fishery products obtained under practically identical conditions; "chilling" means the process of cooling fishery products to a temperature approaching that of melting ice; "clean seawater" means seawater which is free from microbiological contamination, harmful substances or toxic marine plankton in such quantities as may affect the health quality of aquaculture products;

"critical point" means any site, procedure, or part of a procedure at which a potential food safety hazard can be prevented or reduced to acceptable levels by appropriate control measures; "drinking water" means water of such quality as to be fit for human consumption; "fishery products" means all seawater or freshwater animals, or parts thereof, including their roes but excluding aquatic mammals and amphibians; "fresh products" means any fishery product, whether whole or prepared, including vacuum-packed products, which have not undergone any treatment to ensure preservation other than chilling; "frozen products" means any fishery product which has undergone a freezing process to reach a core temperature of -18C or lower after temperature stabilisation;

"licensee" means a person who is licensed in terms of regulation 3 to keep an aquaculture packing establishment;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for fishing and aquaculture;

"packing" means the procedure of protecting fishery or aquaculture products by wrapping material, a container or similar object; "prepared products" means any fishery or aquaculture product which has undergone an operation affecting its anatomical wholeness, such as gutting, filleting, slicing, heading, and similar operations;

"processed products" means any fishery or aquaculture product, whether chilled or frozen, whether associated or not with other foodstuffs, which has undergone a chemical or physical process such as smoking, salting, heating, marinating and similar processes;

"Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Public Health; "visible parasite" means a parasite or a group of parasites which has dimension, colour or texture which is clearly distinguishable from fish tissues and which can be seen without optical means of magnifying and under good illumination for human vision; "visual inspection" means a non-destructive examination of fish or fishery products without optical means of magnifying and under good light conditions for human vision, including, if necessary, candling.