New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 45A - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES OF THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Subchapter 22 - HALAL FOOD
Section 13:45A-22.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Advertises, represents or holds itself out" means engaging, directly or indirectly, in promotional activities including, but not limited to, oral representations, newspaper, radio and television advertising, Internet and electronic media, telephone book listings, distribution of fliers and menus and any in-store signs or announcements.
"Certified" means guaranteed as meeting a standard and endorsed by a halal certifying agency.
"Dealer" means any establishment that advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling, preparing or maintaining food as halal, including, but not limited to, persons, manufacturers, slaughterhouses, processors, wholesalers, stores, restaurants, hotels, caterers, catering facilities, butcher shops, summer camps, bakeries, delicatessens, supermarkets, grocery stores, nursing homes, freezer dealers and food plan companies. Such establishments may also deal in food not represented as halal.
"Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety or the Director's designee.
"Disclosure" means the form(s) provided by the Division and executed by a dealer for the purpose of disclosing to consumers and to the Division practices relating to the slaughter of animals, preparation, handling and sale of food represented to be halal.
"Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
"Food" means a food, food product, food ingredient, dietary supplement or beverage.
"Halal certifying agency" means an independent third party, non-profit or a private entity, non-governmental agency or organization, which supervises a business, product or the production or preparation of food and attests it was in conformance with the standards of halal. Such agencies may endorse a business, product or food as halal by giving a halal symbol.
"Meat" means animal and/or poultry meat, meat products or meat byproducts.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, trust, estate, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity. When used in this subchapter, "person" shall include, but not be limited to, all retail establishments, all dealers as defined above, and all others along the chain of commerce from the time a food is produced or, in the case of meat or poultry, from the time of slaughter to the time of its sale.
"Properly sealed packages" means those packages which bear a halal symbol sealed by the manufacturer, processor or wholesaler at its premises.
"Sell" means to offer for sale, expose for sale, serve or sell, directly or indirectly.
"Wholesaler" means any person selling food to another person where that food is intended for resale.
