§ 11-49-102 — Definitions

Wyoming § 11-49-102

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 11: Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals
• Ch. 49: MARKETING HOMEMADE FOODS

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Delivery" means the transfer of a product
resulting from a transaction between a producer and an informed
end consumer. The delivery may occur by the producer's
designated agent at a farm, ranch, farmers market, home, office
or any location agreed to between the producer and the informed
end consumer;
(ii) "Farmers market" means as defined in W.S.
35-7-110(a)(xxviii);
(iii) "Home consumption" means consumed within a
private home, or food from a private home that is only consumed
by family members, employees or nonpaying guests;
(iv) "Homemade" means food that is prepared or
processed in a private home kitchen, that is not licensed,
inspected or regulated;
(v) "Informed end consumer" means a person who is the
last person to purchase any product, who does not resell the
product and who has been informed that the product is not
licensed, regulated or inspected;
(vi) "Producer" means any person who grows, harvests,
prepares or processes any food or drink products on the
person's owned or leased property, does not produce more than
two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) individual food or drink
products annually and does not exceed two hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($250,000.00) in gross revenue annually from the food
and drink products;
(vii) "Transaction" means the exchange of buying and
selling;
(viii) "Process" means operations a producer performs
in the making or treatment of the producer's food or drink
products;
(ix) "Animal share" means an ownership interest in an
animal or herd of animals created by a written contract between
an informed end consumer and a farmer or rancher that includes a
bill of sale to the consumer for an ownership interest in the
animal or herd and a boarding provision under which the consumer
boards the animal or herd with the farmer or rancher for care
and processing and the consumer is entitled to receive a share
of meat from the animal or herd;
(x) "Non-potentially hazardous food" means food that
does not require time or temperature control for safety
including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin
formation. "Non-potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not
limited to, jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled
vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, dry soup
mixes excluding meat based soup mixes, coffee beans, popcorn and
baked goods that do not include dairy or meat frosting or
filling or other potentially hazardous frosting or filling;
(xi) "Potentially hazardous food" means food that
requires time or temperature control for safety including
limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.
"Potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to,
foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas,
frozen doughs, meat and cooked vegetables and beans;
(xii) "Designated agent" means a person or
consignment model market or food freedom store designated by the
producer to facilitate producer to consumer transactions
including marketing, transport, storage and delivery of food or
drink products. A designated agent shall be named in writing by
the producer and shall not take ownership of any food or drink
product;
(xiii) "Custom slaughter facility" means a slaughter
facility that does not have a state or federal inspector on duty
and where any meat produced from the facility is not considered
to be state or federally inspected meat products;
(xiv) "This act" means W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-
104.