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This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, as well as insects, prepared or preser
ved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3, Note 6 to Chapter 4 or in heading 05.04.
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Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or
crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products
mentioned above, it is classified in the heading of Chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight. These provis
ions do not apply to the stuffed products of heading 19.02 or to the preparations of heading 21.03 or 21.04.
Subheading Notes.
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For the purposes of subheading 1602.10, the expression “homogenised preparations” means preparations of meat, meat offal, blood or insects, fine
ly homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content
not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added
to the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat, meat off
al or insects. This subheading takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 16.02.
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The fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
specified in the subheadings of heading 16.04 or 16.05 under their
common names only, are of the same species as those mentioned in Chapter
3 under the same name.