Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(b) The definitions in sections 19201, 19202,
19203, 19204, 19205, 19206, 19207, 19208, 19209, 19210, 19210.5, 19211, 19212,
19213, 19214, 19215, and 19216 of the Food and Agricultural Code apply to this
group, unless otherwise apparent from their context, and in addition:
(1) The meaning of the term "adulterated" is
as set forth in section
113090
of the Health and Safety Code.
(2)
"Ante-mortem inspection" means the examination of animals before slaughter to
detect conditions that might make them unfit for human or animal
consumption.
(3) "Area Supervisor"
means an official employed by the Branch Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch in
charge of a specified geographical region in California.
(4) "Branch Chief" means the Branch Chief of
the Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch or any officer or employee of the
Department whose authority has been delegated or may be delegated to act in his
stead.
(5) "Branch employee" means
an employee of the Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch of the
Department.
(6) "Business days"
means Monday through Friday, except days recognized as official State
holidays.
(7) "Container" means a
receptacle, such as a box, barrel, tank, or jar, for holding meat or meat
products, poultry meat or poultry meat products, animal carcasses or parts,
inedible kitchen grease, packinghouse waste, or other such items.
(8) "Custom processor" means a business that
cuts, grinds, packages, and otherwise prepares meat food products from
carcasses and parts of carcasses of livestock presented by the owner of the
carcasses and parts of carcasses of livestock. The prepared food products can
only be consumed by the owner, members of the owner's household, and the
owner's employees and non-paying guests.
(9) "Dead animal" means an animal that has
died other than by slaughter in an inspected establishment.
(10) "Denature" means to render unfit for
human food by the use of approved denaturing agents in accordance with section
of Title
31180.43 of Title 3, California Code of
Regulations.
(11) "Department"
means the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
(12) "Inedible" means adulterated,
uninspected, or not intended for use as human food.
(13) "Inspected establishment" means a meat
or poultry slaughter establishment or a meat and/or poultry processing
establishment in California that is licensed by the Meat, Poultry and Egg
Safety Branch of the Department or that operates under a grant of inspection
issued by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA.
(14) "Interceptor/trap grease" means all
material, including inedible kitchen grease, greasy liquid, water, and solids,
removed from a grease interceptor or a grease trap.
(15) "In writing" or "written" means in print
in either a hard copy or electronic format.
(16) "Meat food product" means any article
intended for and capable of being used as pet food that is derived or prepared
in whole or substantial and definite part from any portion of any
animal.
(17) "Official
establishment" means any renderer, collection center, or pet food processor
that is licensed by the Department.
(18) "Owner" means a person in control of
property, including the legal owner, tenants or renters.
(19) "Pack" means to pack, repack, fill,
refill, wrap, rewrap, label, or relabel.
(20) "Packinghouse waste" means meat scraps,
offal, fat, bones, organs, hooves, intestines, hair, skin, hides, condemned
animal carcasses and other animal materials including fish, from
slaughterhouses, butcher shops, meat and poultry processing plants, retail
stores and other commercial facilities that dispose of animal
materials.
(21) "Personal,
noncommercial use" means use by the licensee or registrant and members of the
licensee or registrant's family related by blood or law who reside with the
licensee or registrant. Possession of more than 165 gallons of inedible kitchen
grease shall automatically disqualify anyone from inclusion in this definition
in accordance with Food and Agricultural Code section 19315. Transportation
and/or use of inedible kitchen grease from grease traps or interceptors do not
qualify as "personal, noncommercial use".
(22) "Pet food" means any product intended
for use as food for dogs, cats, or other carnivora that is derived wholly or in
part from the carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of
animals.
(23) "Pet food processing"
means chilling, freezing, packing, repacking or otherwise handling any meat,
meat food product, meat by-product, or horsemeat by-product destined for use as
pet food.
(24) "Premises of a dead
animal hauler" means the premises on which the dead animal hauler maintains a
collection center and/or the premises where the dead animal hauler's trucks and
other vehicles are parked overnight and on weekends.
(25) "Prepare" means to slaughter, cut up,
bone, recut, grind, freeze, mold, pack, repack, label or relabel fresh or
frozen pet food or horsemeat subject to the authority of the
Department.
(26) "State of
California Rejected" means a compartment, room, piece of equipment, utensil, or
facility is tagged using MPI Form 79-028 (Rev. 01/75), California Retain/Reject
Tag.
(A) When the Rejected box of the tag is
checked, it indicates that the compartment, room, utensil, facility, or piece
of equipment so identified is unacceptable for use in the official
establishment and cannot be used until the condition that makes it unacceptable
is corrected.
(B) Only authorized
employees of the Department can remove the California Rejected/Retained
tag.
(27) "State of
California Retained" means a product is tagged using MPI Form 79-028 (Rev.
01/75), California Retain/Reject Tag.
(A)
When the Retained box of the tag is checked, it indicates that the meat or
poultry meat or meat or poultry product so identified is unacceptable for use
in the official establishment and cannot be used until the condition that makes
it unacceptable is corrected or the item is properly disposed of.
(B) Only authorized employees of the
Department can remove the California Rejected/Retained tag.
(28) "USDA" means the United States
Department of Agriculture.
1. New
Group 3 (§§ 1180,
1180.1 through
1180.37) filed 1-14-70 as an
emergency; effective upon filing. Approved by State Building Standards
Commission. (Register 70, No. 3).
2. Certificate of Compliance--Sec.
11422.1, Gov. C., filed 3-12-70 (Register 70, No. 11).
3.
Renumbering of Group 3 as Group 2 filed 10-8-70 as an emergency; effective upon
filing (Register 70, No. 41).
4. Change without regulatory effect
amending subsection (a) filed 5-27-2004 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2004, No. 22).
5. New subchapter heading,
amendment of article heading, repealer and new section and amendment of NOTE
filed 3-7-2012; operative 4-6-2012 (Register 2012, No. 10).
6.
Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (b)(4) filed 4-2-2012
pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2012, No. 14).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
407,
19380,
19381,
19382,
19383,
19384
and
19385,
Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 19240, 19260, 19280, 19300,
19310, 19315, 19320 and 19360, Food and Agricultural Code,
