Code of Maine Rules
01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY
001 - AGRICULTURE - GENERAL
Chapter 361 - ON FARM RAISING, SLAUGHTER AND PROCESSING OF LESS THAN 1000 READY-TO-COOK WHOLE RABBITS CARCASSES
Section 001-361-1 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Ante-mortem inspection" means the inspection of live rabbits prior to being slaughtered for sickness or disease.

B. "Community Supported Agriculture" means an arrangement whereby individual consumers have agreements with a farmer to be provided with food or other agricultural products produced on that farm.

C. "Interstate Commerce" means the sale or the transportation of ready to cook rabbit between different states.

D. "Locally Owned Grocery Store" means a grocery store at least 51% of which is owned by one or more residents of the State and that has a gross floor area of 25,000 square feet or less.

E. "Locally Owned Restaurant" means an eating establishment at least 51% is owned by one or more residents of the State and that is not a chain restaurant pursuant to 22 MRSA section2491, subsection 2-B.

F. "Post Mortem Inspection" means the inspection of rabbit organs and tissue for evidence of disease which would make the meat unsuitable for human food.

G. "Principal Display Panel" means the part of the label most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions to the consumer.

H. "Quarantine" means a place of isolation in which live rabbits that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.

I. "Rabbit Producer" means a person that raises rabbits offered for sale.

J. "Ready-to-Cook Rabbit" means domestic rabbit which has been slaughtered for human food, from which the head, heart, kidneys, blood, skin, feet, and inedible viscera have been removed and that is ready to cook without need of further processing.

K. "Segregation" means placing diseased rabbits in a restricted area.