Food Production and Animal and Plant Product Processing
6 Food Production and Animal and Plant Product Processing
Meat processing works the conduct of slaughtering works for commercial purposes for the production of meat or meat products for human or animal consumption, being—
in the case of poultry or poultry meat products—works with a rate of production exceeding 200 tonnes per year; or
in the case of any other animal meat or animal meat products—works with a rate of production exceeding 100 tonnes per year.
Breweries the conduct of works for the production of beer by infusion, boiling or fermentation, being works with a beer production capacity exceeding
5 000 litres per day.
Fish Processing the conduct of works for scaling, gilling, gutting, filleting or otherwise processing fish for sale, but excluding—
works with a processing output of less than 100 tonnes per year where wastewater is disposed of to a sewer or CWMS; or
works with a processing output of less than 2 tonnes per year where wastewater is disposed of otherwise than to a sewer or CWMS;
or
processing of fish only in the course of a business of selling fish by retail. In this subclause— fish has the same meaning as in the
Fisheries Management
Act 2007; processing fish does not include freezing, chilling or packing the fish.
Milk Processing Works the conduct of works at which milk is separated, evaporated or otherwise processed for the manufacture of evaporated or condensed milk, cheese, butter, ice cream or other similar dairy products, being works at which milk is processed at a rate exceeding 5 000 000 litres per year.
Produce Processing Works the conduct of works for processing any agricultural crop material being—
works for the processing of agricultural crop material by deep fat frying, roasting or drying through the application of heat with a processing capacity exceeding 30 kilograms per hour; or
works at which more than 10 000 000 litres of wastewater is generated and disposed of otherwise than to a sewer or
CWMS.
Rendering or Fat Extraction Works the conduct of works at which animal, fish or grease trap wastes or other matter is processed or is capable of being processed by rendering or extraction or by some other means to produce tallow or fat or their derivatives or proteinaceous matter, being works with a total processing capacity exceeding
250 kilograms per hour.
Curing or Drying Works the conduct of works at which meat, fish or other edible products are smoked, dried or cured by the application of heat or smoke with a total processing capacity exceeding 250 kilograms per hour.
Tanneries or Fellmongeries the conduct of works for the commercial preservation or treatment of animal skins or hides being works processing more than 5 tonnes of skins or hides per year, but excluding—
the processing of skins or hides by primary producers in the course of primary production activities outside township areas; or
the processing of skins or hides in the course of taxidermy.
Woolscouring or Wool Carbonising Works the conduct of works for the commercial cleaning or carbonising of wool, but excluding cleaning or carbonising of wool in the course of handicraft activities where the wool is further processed for sale by retail.
Wineries or Distilleries the conduct of works for the processing of grapes or other produce to make wine or spirits, but excluding—
works that are outside the Mount Lofty Ranges Water Protection Area (as declared under Part
8 of this Act) at which 500 tonnes or less of grapes or other produce are processed per year; or
works that are inside the Mount Lofty Ranges Water Protection Area (as declared under Part
8 of this Act) at which 50 tonnes or less of grapes or other produce are processed per year; or
works for bottling only.
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