Regulation 64

Minced meat or chopped meat shall be meat, whether fresh or chilled, which has been comminuted by mincing, chopping or cutting. It shall not contain any preservative, salt or other added substance.

Despite paragraph (1), minced meat or chopped meat may contain a pathogen reduction treatment by reason only of having been comminuted from meat that contains an amount of a pathogen reduction treatment in accordance with regulation 27A(3) and the Seventeenth Schedule.

Minced beef shall contain not more than 30% fat and when the product is represented by any means whatsoever as being lean it shall contain not more than 15% fat.