§ 96-G — Definitions

§ 96-g. Definitions. As used in this article, unless otherwise\nexpressly stated, or unless the content or subject matter otherwise\nrequires;\n 1. "Department" means the department of agriculture and markets.\n 2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture and markets.\n 3. "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association.\n 4. "Inspection legend" means a mark or a statement authorized by the\nprovisions of the federal law, on a carcass, meat, meat by-product, or\nmeat food product indicating the product has been inspected and passed.\n 5. "Meat label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter\nauthorized by the provisions of the federal law on a container\nindicating the meat, meat by-products, or meat food products contained\ntherein have been inspected and passed.\n 6. "Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, swine, sheep,\ngoats, horses and other large domesticated animals which is skeletal or\nwhich is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the\nesophagus, with or without the accompanying or overlying fat, and the\nportions of bone, skin, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany\nthe muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of\ndressing. It does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout or\nears. Any edible part of the carcass which has been manufactured, cured,\nsmoked, processed or otherwise treated shall not be considered meat.\n 7. "Meat by-product" means any edible part other than meat which has\nbeen derived from cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large\ndomesticated animals. This term shall apply only to those parts which\nhave not been manufactured, cured, smoked, processed or otherwise\ntreated.\n 8. "Meat food product" means any product capable of use as human food\nwhich is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the\ncarcass of any animal, excepting products which contain meat or other\nportions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or\nhistorically have not been considered by consumers as products of the\nmeat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat\nfood product by the commissioner under such conditions as he may\nprescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses\ncontained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are\nnot represented as meat food products.\n 9. "Custom slaughterer" means a person, firm, corporation or\nassociation who or which operates a place or establishment where animals\nare delivered by the owner thereof for slaughter exclusively for use, in\nthe household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his\nnon-paying guests and employees, provided, that such custom slaughterer\ndoes not engage in the business of buying or selling any carcasses,\nparts of carcasses, meat or meat products of any animal.\n 10. "Custom slaughtered meat" means meat from animals which have been\nslaughtered by a custom slaughterer for the owner exclusively for use,\nin the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and\nhis non-paying guests and employees.\n 11. "Farm dressed meat" means meat from animals slaughtered by a bona\nfide farmer who, as an incident of such farm operation, slaughters his\nown domestic animals on his own premises exclusively for use, in his\nhousehold, by him and members of his household and his non-paying guests\nand employees.\n 12. "Edible" and "for human consumption" shall apply to any carcass,\nor part or product of a carcass, of any animal, unless it is denatured\nor otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the\ncommissioner to deter its use as human food, or is naturally inedible by\nhumans.\n 13. "Animal" means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large\ndomesticated mammals.\n 14. "Carcass" means all parts, including viscera of a slaughtered\nanimal, that are capable of being used for human food.\n 15. "Federal inspection" means the meat inspection maintained by the\nUnited States department of agriculture.\n 16. "Federal law" means the federal meat inspection act and all acts\namendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.\n 17. "Game or wild game" means any deer or big game, or portions\nthereof, as defined in section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation\nlaw, taken by lawful hunting.\n