Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part V - Advertising, Marketing and Processing
Chapter 16 - Meat, Poultry and Seafood Grading and Certification Program
Section V-1603 - Definitions

A. The terms defined in §1603 have the meaning given to them herein, for purposes of these regulations, except where the context expressly indicates otherwise.

Certification-a document or a stamp applied to any package containing any meat, poultry or seafood food product, which verifies that the food product meets the specification requirements established by the department.

Commission-the State Market Commission.

Commissioner-Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

Department-the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

Food Product-any edible item which includes, 3 percent or more by weight, meat, poultry or seafood, and, regardless of whether it is raw, precooked or fully cooked, is capable of use as human food.

Food Service Facility-any place where a food product is prepared, packaged or served in portions designed for individual consumption by people. The term includes any such place regardless of whether consumption is on or off the premises and regardless of whether there is a charge for the food.

Grade-the combined group of standards that a food product must meet to be in accordance with the appropriate certification requirements.

Local School District-any elementary or secondary school system operated by any parish, city or other public school board and any public charter school or any other independent public school authorized by the Louisiana Department of Education.

Meat-any part of any cattle or other bovine, swine, sheep, or goat capable of use as human food.

Person-any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal entity, whether for profit or nonprofit, who, through contract with the state of Louisiana, any state agency, any state institution or local school district operates a food service facility that supplies, provides or serves food products available for consumption by any student, resident, patient or inmate of any state agency, state institution or local school district.

Poultry-any part of any chicken, turkey, duck, goose or other domesticated fowl, quail, pheasant, ostrich, emu, or other ratites, or any other type of bird, eggs and domesticated rabbits capable of use as human food.

Public Entity-any state agency, state institution, local school district or person operating one or more food service facility that supplies, provides or serves food products available for consumption by any student, resident, patient or inmate of any state agency, state institution or local school district.

Seafood-any fresh or salt water finfish, farm-raised catfish, shrimp, crawfish, lobsters, oysters and all other edible shellfish, crustaceans, and mollusks, alligators, frogs, turtles and any other form of edible aquatic animal life regardless of whether farm raised or caught in privately owned waters or public waters including the sea, streams and lakes.

State Agency-any board, commission, department, agency, special district, authority or other entity performing a state function.

State Institution-any university, college or center of higher learning, hospital, clinic, veterans or geriatric home, mental institution, juvenile facility, prison or any other facility operated by a state agency, or through a contract with the state of Louisiana or any state agency, by any private, whether for profit or nonprofit, individual, corporation, association or other legal entity for the purpose of teaching, treating, incarcerating, maintaining or housing students, residents, patients or inmates.

Vendor-any individual, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity that sells any type of food product to any state agency, state institution, local school district or person operating a food service facility, as defined herein, that supplies, provides or serves food products available for consumption by any student, resident, patient or inmate of any state agency, state institution or local school district.