Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 9 - ANIMAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Article 4 - DISPOSAL PLANTS
Section 9-4-1 - Definitions

(a) "Commissioner" means the livestock sanitary commissioner of the state of Kansas.

(b) "Inedible meat" means meat and meat products derived from dead, dying, disabled, diseased, or condemned animals, or animals whose meat or meat products are otherwise unsuitable for human consumption, and shall include meat or meat products regardless of origin which have deteriorated so far as to be unfit for human consumption.

(c) "Decharacterization" means the uniform application of sufficient quantities of dye, charcoal, malodorous fish oil, acid or any other agent approved by the commissioner, upon and into freshly slashed flesh, or inedible meat, so as to unequivocally preclude its use in human food.