Definitions and terms
"all life stages": gestation, lactation, weaning, growth, adult and senior life stages of an animal;
"complementary pet food": a pet food which is either a treat or is a fresh, frozen or canned meat or fish product that does not meet all the daily feeding requirements of a pet animal;
"complete pet food": a pet food which contains all the necessary nutrients in the correct amounts and proportions for a given physiological need of the pet as established by a recognised authority in pet nutrition and which meets the total daily requirements of a pet animal as specified by these guidelines;
"feed ingredient": a product of vegetable or animal origin, in its natural state, fresh or preserved, and a product derived from the industrial processing thereof, and an organic or inorganic substance, whether or not containing additives, which is intended for use in oral animal feeding, either directly as such or after processing, in the preparation of animal feeds or as a carrier of premixtures. Feed ingredient has the same meaning as ingredient, raw material, feed material, feedstuff or any words of similar connotation;
"family": means a group of products which are nutritionally adequate for any or all life stages based on their nutritional similarity to a lead product the nutritional adequacy of which has been substantiated;
"fresh": meat: not preserved by salting, canning or dehydrating;
"fresh": other: newly made, produced or gathered/harvested; not stale; not preserved through the use of preservatives;
"immediate container": means, in relation to a pet food, a container which is in direct contact with the pet food. Hereinafter, in these guidelines, the word "container" shall have a corresponding meaning to immediate container;
"ingredient statement": means a collective and contiguous listing on the label of the ingredients of which the pet food is composed;
"label": when used as a noun, means any written, printed or graphic representation attached to an immediate container of a pet food or produced on an immediate container in any possible manner and which states the details required in terms of these guidelines for the particular pet food contained therein;
"labelling": means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter on pet food or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such pet food;
"natural": a feed or ingredient derived solely from plant, animal or mined sources, either in its unprocessed state or having been subject to physical processing, heat processing, rendering, purification, extraction, hydrolysis, enzymolysis, or fermentation, but not having been produced by or subject to a chemical synthetic process and not containing any additives or processing aids that are chemically synthetic except in amounts as might occur unavoidably in good manufacturing practices;
"nutrient": a substance which conveys nourishment to an animal;
"particular nutritional purpose": the purpose of satisfying the specific nutritional needs of certain pets whose process of assimilation, absorption or metabolism could be temporarily impaired or is temporarily or irreversibly impaired and are, therefore, able to derive benefit from ingestion of pet foods appropriate to their condition;
"pet animal": an animal belonging to a species normally nourished and kept, but not consumed, by humans, except an animal bred for fur;
"pet food": animal feed for pet animals;
"registration holder": the juristic person to whom the Registrar has issued a certificate of registration;
"registration number": the number given by the Registrar once a product has been registered and under which a product may be sold;
"sell" and "sold": shall have the same meaning as "sell" as defined in the Act;
"the Act": the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act 36 of 1947);
"the Department": the National Department of Agriculture in the South Africa;
"treat": when used as a noun, means a complementary pet food product that is intended by the manufacturer to be fed to cover less than 15% of the daily energy intake of the animal for which it is intended.