Source: http://kslegislature.org/li_2018/b2017_18/statute/065_000_0000_chapter/065_006a_0000_article/065_006a_0018_section/065_006a_0018_k/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 05:52:04+00:00

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(a) "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture.
(b) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit or governmental entity.
(c) "Broker" means any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of livestock on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person.
(d) "Public warehouseman" means any person engaged in the business of storing for commerce any meat, meat products, poultry or poultry products without assuming ownership of the product in storage.
(e) "Animal food manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of livestock, domestic rabbits or poultry.
(f) "Intrastate commerce" means commerce within the state of Kansas.
(g) "Meat food product" means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portions of the carcasses of any livestock or domestic rabbits, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the secretary under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products.
(h) "Poultry" means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead.
(i) "Poultry product" means any poultry carcass, or part thereof or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry and which are exempted by the secretary from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products.
(j) "Capable of use as human food" means any carcass, or part or product of a carcass, of any animal unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations adopted by the secretary to deter its use as human food or it is naturally inedible by humans.
(k) "Prepared" means slaughtered or processed.
(9) if the product is a margarine containing animal fat and if any of the raw material used therein consisted, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance.
(12) if the product fails to bear directly thereon, or on the product container, as the secretary may prescribe by rules and regulations, the inspection legend unrestricted by any of the foregoing and such other information as the secretary may require in such rules and regulations to assure that the product will not have any false or misleading labeling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the product in a wholesome condition.
(n) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article.
(o) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers or (2) accompanying the article.
(p) "Federal meat inspection act" means the act so entitled, approved March 4, 1907, (21 U.S.C.A. § 601 et seq., 34 Stat. 1260) as amended by the federal wholesome meat act (8 Stat. 584).
(q) "Federal food, drug and cosmetic act" means the act so entitled, approved June 25, 1938, (21 U.S.C.A. § 301 et seq., 52 Stat. 1040), and amendments thereto.
(r) "Federal poultry products inspection act" means the act so entitled, approved August 28, 1957, (21 U.S.C.A. § 451 et seq., 71 Stat. 441) as amended by the federal wholesome poultry products act (82 Stat. 791).
(s) "Pesticide chemical," "food additive," "color additive" and "raw agricultural commodity" have the meanings for purposes of this act as ascribed thereto under K.S.A. 65-656, and amendments thereto.
(t) "Official mark" means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by rules and regulations of the secretary to identify the status of any article or animal under this act.
(u) "Official inspection legend" means any symbol prescribed by rules and regulations of the secretary showing that an article was inspected and passed in accordance with this act.
(v) "Official certificate" means any certificate prescribed by rules and regulations of the secretary for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this act.
(w) "Official device" means any device prescribed or authorized by the secretary for use in applying any official mark.
(x) "Slaughter facility" means any facility or section thereof which carries on the slaughter and dressing of animals.
(y) "Processing facility" means any facility or section thereof that packs, cans, salts, renders, bones, cuts up or otherwise manufactures meat or poultry into meat food products or poultry products.
(z) "Buffalo" means the American buffalo or bison (Bos, Bison bison or Bison americanus).
(aa) "Livestock" means cattle, buffaloes, sheep, swine, goats, domesticated deer, all creatures of the ratite family that are not indigenous to this state, including but not limited to ostriches, emus and rheas or horses, mules or other equines. Livestock shall not include buffalo or domesticated deer slaughtered for sport or recreational purpose.
(bb) "Wholesaler" means any person engaged in the distribution of inspected and passed meat, meat products, poultry or poultry products. Wholesalers may not further process or repackage product.
(cc) "Humane slaughter act" means K.S.A. 47-1401 et seq., and amendments thereto, and rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
(dd) "Domesticated deer" means any member of the family cervidae which was legally obtained and is being sold or raised in a confined area for breeding stock; for any carcass, skin or part of such animal; for exhibition; or for companionship.
History: L. 1969, ch. 296, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 243, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 211, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 232, § 1; L. 1993, ch. 143, § 9; L. 1994, ch. 79, § 9; L. 2003, ch. 118, § 3; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 89; L. 2012, ch. 145, § 28; July 1.

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