Posted by Larry Hoover on March 31, 2005, at 18:03:05
In reply to Re: there really isn't meat in hot dogs, Larry, posted by alexandra_k on March 31, 2005, at 14:05:51
> I think the regular cheap hotdogs in NZ were something like 2% meat. Mostly soy.
>
> A year or so back we changed our food regulations (on meat pies anyway) to bring them into line with Australian regulations. Lots of recepies had to change. Maybe Damos knows... I think it may have been 5%.Ya, I just checked the AU/NZ regs. Minimum of 30% meat in a processed meat product. If it's called a sausage, 50%. All ingredients other than additives or flavourings must be listed if 5% or more of the content. All ingredients listed in declining order of their initial weight before processing, except water, which can be estimated.
Other limits, such as an "all beef" product must be all beef, blah blah.
Lar
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