Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 52, December 27, 2024
In addition to the terms defined under A.R.S. §§
3-481 and
3-525, these words
and phrases are defined for use in Articles 2 through 17 of this Chapter,
unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Adequate" means that which is needed to
accomplish the intended purpose in keeping with good public health
practice.
2. "Adequately reduce
undesirable microorganisms of public health significance" means reduce the
presence of such undesirable microorganisms to an extent sufficient to prevent
illness.
3. "Agricultural water"
means water used in either:
a. Covered
activities on covered produce where water is intended to, or is likely to,
contact covered produce or food contact surfaces, including water used in all
growing activities, such as irrigation water applied using direct water
agricultural methods, water used for preparing crop sprays, and water used for
growing sprouts; or
b. Harvesting,
packing and holding activities, such as water used for washing or cooling
harvested produce and water used for preventing dehydration of covered
produce.
4. "Animal
excreta" means solid or liquid animal waste.
5. "Applicable health condition" includes but
is not limited to:
a. A communicable illness
that presents a public health risk in the context of normal work
duties,
b. An infection,
c. An open lesion,
d. Vomiting, or
e. Diarrhea.
6. "Covered activity":
a. Means growing, harvesting, packing, or
holding covered produce on a farm, including manufacturing or processing of
covered produce on a farm, but only to the extent that these activities are
performed on raw agricultural commodities and only to the extent that these
activities are within the meaning of "farm" as defined in this Chapter, and
providing, acting consistently with, and documenting actions taken in
compliance with written assurances as described in R3-10-303; and
b. Does not apply to activities of a facility
that are subject to 21 CFR 1(B)(110) relating to preventive controls for human
food and current good manufacturing practice in manufacturing, packing or
holding human food.
7.
"Covered produce":
a. Means produce that is
subject to the requirements of Articles 3 through 17 of this Chapter in
accordance with R3-10-303 and R3-10-304, and
b. Refers to the harvestable or harvested
part of the crop.
8.
"Department" means the Arizona Department of Agriculture.
9. "Designated representative" means the
individual who is responsible for the farm's compliance with the requirements
of Articles 3 through 17 of this Chapter that are applicable to the farm and
who is selected by the owner, operator, lessee or agent. A designated
representative may include an owner, operator, lessee, farm manager, produce
safety expert, food safety professional, or agent of the farm.
10. "Direct water application method" means
using agricultural water in a manner whereby the water is intended to, or is
likely to, contact covered produce or food contact surfaces during use of the
water.
11. "Farm" means:
a. Primary Production Farm. A primary
production farm is an operation under one management in one general, but not
necessarily contiguous, physical location devoted to growing crops, harvesting
crops, raising animals, including seafood, or any combination of these
activities. The term "farm" includes operations that, in addition to the above
activities, also includes:
i. Packing or
holding raw agricultural commodities;
ii. Packing or holding processed food,
provided that all processed food used in such activities is either consumed on
that farm or another farm under the same management or is processed food
identified in subsection (iii)(2)(a) of this definition; and
iii. Manufacturing or processing food,
provided that either:
(1) All food used in
such activities is consumed on that farm or another farm under the same
management;
(2) Any manufacturing
or processing of food that is not consumed on that farm or another farm under
the same management consists only of:
(a)
Drying or dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct
commodity, such as drying or dehydrating grapes to produce raisins, and
packaging and labeling such commodities, without additional manufacturing or
processing;
(b) Treatment to
manipulate the ripening of raw agricultural commodities, such as by treating
produce with ethylene gas, and packaging and labeling treated raw agricultural
commodities, without additional manufacturing or processing; and
(c) Packaging and labeling raw agricultural
commodities, when these activities do not involve additional manufacturing or
processing, such as irradiation; or
b. Secondary Activities Farm. A secondary
activities farm is an operation, not located on a primary production farm,
devoted to harvesting, such as hulling or shelling, packing, or holding of raw
agricultural commodities, provided that the primary production farm that grows,
harvests, or raises the majority of the raw agricultural commodities harvested,
packed, or held by the secondary activities farm owns, or jointly owns, a
majority interest in the secondary activities farm. A secondary activities farm
may also conduct those additional activities allowed on a primary production
farm in subsections (a)(i) and (ii) of this definition.
12. "FDA" means U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
13. "Food contact
surfaces":
a. Means those surfaces that
contact human food and those surfaces from which drainage, or other transfer,
onto the food or onto surfaces that contact the food ordinarily occurs during
the normal course of operations; and
b. Includes food contact surfaces of
equipment and tools used during harvest, packing and holding.
14. "Food grains":
a. Means the small hard fruits or seeds of
arable crops, or the crops bearing these fruits or seeds;
b. Are primarily grown and processed for use
as meal, flour, baked goods, cereals and oils rather than for direct
consumption as small, hard fruits or seeds; and
c. Includes barley, dent- or flint-corn,
sorghum, oats, rice, rye, wheat, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, and oilseeds,
such as cottonseed, flax seed, rapeseed, soybean, and sunflower seed.
15. "Harvesting":
a. Means activities on farms and farm mixed
type facilities that are traditionally performed on farms for the purpose of
removing raw agricultural commodities from the place they were grown or raised
and preparing them for use as food;
b. Is limited to activities performed on raw
agricultural commodities, or on processed foods created by drying or
dehydrating a raw agricultural commodity without additional manufacturing or
processing, on a farm;
c. Does not
include activities that transform a raw agricultural commodity into a processed
food as defined in Section 201 (gg) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act; and
d. Includes:
i. Cutting or otherwise separating the edible
portion of the raw agricultural commodity from the crop plant and removing or
trimming part of the raw agricultural commodity, such as foliage, husks, roots
or stems.
ii. Cooling, field
coring, filtering, gathering, hulling, shelling, sifting, threshing, trimming
outer leaves, and washing raw agricultural commodities grown on a
farm.
16.
"Holding":
a. Means storage of food and
activities performed incidental to storage of a food [Holding facilities could
include warehouses, cold storage facilities, storage silos, grain elevators,
and liquid storage tanks];
b.
Includes activities performed as a practical necessity for distribution of that
food, such as blending of the same raw commodity and breaking down
pallets;
c. Examples include
activities performed for the safe or effective storage of that food, such as
fumigating food during storage, and drying or dehydrating raw agricultural
commodities, when drying or dehydrating does not create a distinct commodity,
such as drying or dehydrating hay or alfalfa; and
d. Does not include activities that transform
a raw agricultural commodity into a processed food as defined in Section 201
(gg) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
17. "Known or reasonably foreseeable hazard"
means a biological agent that is known, is recognized, or has the potential to
cause illness or injury in the absence of its control.
18. "Lot" means a definite quantity of seed
identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is
uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors that appear in the
labeling.
19. "Manufacturing or
processing":
a. Means making food from one or
more ingredients, or synthesizing, preparing, treating, modifying or
manipulating food, including food crops or ingredients;
b. Examples include baking, boiling,
bottling, canning, cooking, cooling, cutting, distilling, drying or dehydrating
raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct commodity, such as drying or
dehydrating grapes to produce raisins, evaporating, eviscerating, extracting
juice, formulating, freezing, grinding, homogenizing, labeling, milling,
mixing, packaging, including modified atmosphere packaging, pasteurizing,
peeling, rendering, treating to manipulate ripening, trimming, washing, or
waxing; and
c. Does not include,
for farms and mixed-type facilities, activities that are part of harvesting,
packing, or holding.
20.
"Manure" means animal excreta, alone or in combination with litter, such as
straw and feathers used for animal bedding, for use as a soil
amendment.
21. "Monitor" means to
conduct a planned sequence of observations or measurements to assess whether a
process, point or procedure is under control and, when required, to produce an
accurate record of the observation or measurement.
22. "Packing":
a. Means placing food into a container and
also includes re-packing and activities performed incidental to packing or
re-packing a food;
b. Includes
activities performed for the safe or effective packing or re-packing of that
food, such as sorting, culling, grading, and weighing or conveying incidental
to packing or re-packing; and
c.
Does not include activities that transform a raw agricultural commodity into a
processed food as defined in Section 201(gg) of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act.
23. "Pest"
means any objectionable animals or insects, including birds, rodents, flies,
and larvae.
24. "Produce":
a. Means any fruit as defined in Article 3 of
this Chapter or vegetable as defined in this Section;
b. Includes mixes of intact fruits and
vegetables as well as mushrooms, sprouts, irrespective of seed source, peanuts,
tree nuts and herbs; and
c. Does
not include food grains as defined in this Section.
25. "Sanitize" means to adequately treat
cleaned surfaces by a process that is effective in destroying vegetative cells
of undesirable microorganisms of public health significance, and in
substantially reducing numbers of other undesirable microorganisms, but without
adversely affecting the product or its safety for the consumer.
26. "Undesirable microorganisms" means
yeasts, molds, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and microscopic parasites and
includes species having public health significance.
27. "Vegetable":
a. Means the edible part of an herbaceous
plant, such as cabbage or potato, or fleshy fruiting body of a fungus, such as
white button or shiitake, grown for an edible part;
b. Means the harvestable or harvested part of
any plant or fungus whose fruit, fleshy fruiting bodies, seeds, roots, tubers,
bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food; and
c. Includes mushrooms, sprouts, and herbs,
such as basil or cilantro.
28. "Visitor" means any person, other than
personnel, who enters a covered farm with permission.
29. "Water distribution system" means a
system to carry water from its primary source to its point of use, including
pipes, sprinklers, irrigation canals, pumps, valves, storage tanks, reservoirs,
meters, and fittings.
