Salami

• Any shape is acceptable. Please specify type or special information.

Chorizo

• Pork sausage that is ready to be eaten. Can be smoked and can contain peppers.

Ham

• Should be derived from front or hind leg of a pig. Can also be Canadian styled. Must be ready to eat.

Dried / cured meats

• Can be dried or cured. Must be primal cut. Cooked and cured meats are products that had been cured using nitrite and/or a combination of nitrite and nitrate. They are then cooked to a core temperature of 72° C/162 °F.

Jerky / biltong

• Meat that has been dried, spiced and salted. Can be smoked or unsmoked. Can be from a wide variety of species. Must not be manufactured or reformed.

Bacon

• Only meat derived from belly and sides of pig, that has been cured. Will be cooked on site.

Cooked meats

• Can be oven cooked or water cooked. No processed/manufactured or reformed products allowed.

Cooked sausages

• Must be ready to eat. Can be smoked or unsmoked. Can be from wide variety of species.

Uncooked sausages

• Can be smoked or unsmoked. Can be from wide variety of species. Products are minced or comminuted. May not be partially cooked.

Terrines

• Made from coarsely chopped ingredients, and the end result is normally sliceable.

Patés

• Paste or loaf of ground meat from various species that contains liver.

Rillettes

• Meat slow cooked in fat. Most commonly made from pork, but other species can also be represented. Can be spread.

Liverwürst

• Liver spread that can be either course or fine.

Species sausage

• Means sausage manufactured predominantly from the meat of a specific species of animal or bird and that is sold under a name in which the name of the species referred to and the word “sausage” appear, either by themselves or in combination with any other word or expression.

Boerewors raw definition:

Any sausage sold under a name in which the word “boerewors” appears either by itself or in combination with any other word or expression.

Compositional Requirements:

• Raw boerewors shall be manufactured from the meat of an animal of the bovine, ovine, porcine or caprine species or from a mixture of two or more thereof, shall be contained in an edible casing, and –
• shall contain a minimum of 90 percent total meat content and not more than 30 percent fat content;
• shall contain no offal except where such offal is to be used solely as the casing of the raw boerewors;
• shall contain no mechanically recovered meat; may contain a maximum of 0,02 grams of calcium per 100 gram of the product mass.

In or in connection with the manufacture of raw boerewors, no ingredients shall be added except –

• cereal products or starch;
• vinegar, spices, herbs, salt or other harmless flavourants;
• permitted food additives;
• water

Dahnia sausage

• Sausage containing Dhania/Coriander.

Flexatarian sausage:

• Sausage that contain at least 30% vegetables.

• Donates a sausage made from special ingredients that defy normal classification.

• This donates meat that have been skewered, and may contain any edible accompaniments such as fruit or vegetables. The meat may be marinated with any sauce.

Burgers/Patties

• This product consist out of a conglomerate of minced meat, mixed with other ingredients such as spices, herbs, cheese or any other food safe ingredient allowed.