NY Agric & Mkts L § 96-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws AGM - Agriculture and Markets Article 5-B - Sale of Meat 96-G - Definitions.

§ 96-g. Definitions.    As  used  in  this  article,  unless otherwise   expressly stated, or unless the  content  or  subject  matter  otherwise   requires;1. "Department" means the department of agriculture and markets.2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture and markets.3. "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association.4.  "Inspection  legend" means a mark or a statement authorized by the   provisions of the federal law, on a carcass, meat, meat  by-product,  or   meat food product indicating the product has been inspected and passed.5. "Meat label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter   authorized  by  the  provisions  of  the  federal  law  on  a  container   indicating the meat, meat by-products, or meat food  products  contained   therein have been inspected and passed.6. "Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, swine, sheep,   goats,  horses and other large domesticated animals which is skeletal or   which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or  in  the   esophagus,  with  or  without the accompanying or overlying fat, and the   portions of bone, skin, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany   the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process  of   dressing.  It  does  not  include the muscle found in the lips, snout or   ears. Any edible part of the carcass which has been manufactured, cured,   smoked, processed or otherwise treated shall not be considered meat.7. "Meat by-product" means any edible part other than meat  which  has   been  derived  from  cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large   domesticated animals. This term shall apply only to  those  parts  which   have  not  been  manufactured,  cured,  smoked,  processed  or otherwise   treated.8. "Meat food product" means any product capable of use as human  food   which  is  made  wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the   carcass of any animal, 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  commissioner  under  such  conditions  as  he  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.9.  "Custom  slaughterer"  means  a  person,  firm,   corporation   or   association who or which operates a place or establishment where animals   are delivered by the owner thereof for slaughter exclusively for use, in   the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his   non-paying  guests and employees, provided, that such custom slaughterer   does not engage in the business of  buying  or  selling  any  carcasses,   parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of any animal.10.  "Custom slaughtered meat" means meat from animals which have been   slaughtered by a custom slaughterer for the owner exclusively  for  use,   in  the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and   his non-paying guests and employees.11. "Farm dressed meat" means meat from animals slaughtered by a  bona   fide  farmer  who, as an incident of such farm operation, slaughters his   own domestic animals on his own premises exclusively  for  use,  in  his   household, by him and members of his household and his non-paying guests   and employees.12.  "Edible"  and "for human consumption" shall apply to any carcass,   or part or product of a carcass, of any animal, unless it  is  denatured   or  otherwise  identified  as  required by regulations prescribed by the   commissioner to deter its use as human food, or is naturally inedible by   humans. 13. "Animal" means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large   domesticated mammals.14.  "Carcass"  means  all  parts,  including viscera of a slaughtered   animal, that are capable of being used for human food.15. "Federal inspection" means the meat inspection maintained  by  the   United States department of agriculture.16.  "Federal  law" means the federal meat inspection act and all acts   amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.17. "Game or wild game" means  any  deer  or  big  game,  or  portions   thereof, as defined in section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation   law, taken by lawful hunting.