California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 2 - Animal Industry › Chapter 10 - Animal Confinement › Article 3 - Breeding Pigs › Section 1322 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
					 definitions apply to this Article and words in the singular form shall be
					 deemed to impart the plural and vice versa, as the case may demand:
(a) "Act" means the Farm Animal Cruelty
				  statute, as amended (Chapter 13.8 (commencing with section
				  25990) of Division 20 of the Health
				  and Safety Code).
(b) "Audit trail"
				  means records that are in sufficient detail to document the identification,
				  source, supplier, transfer of ownership, transportation, storage, segregation,
				  handling, packaging, distribution, and sale of whole pork meat that was derived
				  from a breeding pig, or immediate offspring of a breeding pig, confined in
				  compliance with sections
				  25991
				  and
				  25992
				  of the Health and Safety Code and this Article, and from pork producers that
				  hold a valid certification as a certified operation issued pursuant to Article
				  5 of this Chapter.
(c) "Breeding
				  pig" means any female pig of the porcine species kept for the purpose of
				  commercial breeding who is six (6) months of age or older, or
				  pregnant.
(d) "Certified operation"
				  means as defined in section
				  1326(e) of this
				  Chapter.
(e) "Certifying agent"
				  means as defined in section
				  1326(f) of this
				  Chapter.
(f) "Commercial sale" for
				  purposes of section
				  25991(o)
				  of the Health and Safety Code and this Article means to sell, exchange, barter,
				  trade, transfer title or possession, or distribute, conditional or otherwise,
				  in California commerce including, but not limited to, transactions by a
				  retailer with a consumer and electronic transactions made using the internet.
				  It shall not include any of the following transactions or transfers of
				  possession, which apply only to a specific transaction listed below, not to the
				  covered product itself, and therefore does not apply to all subsequent
				  commercial sales of whole pork meat:
(1)
				  Whole pork meat produced outside of the state that enters and exits California,
				  without additional processing or repackaging, exclusively for purposes of
				  transshipment or export outside of the state;
(2) Any sale of whole pork meat undertaken on
				  the premises of an establishment at which mandatory inspection is provided
				  under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.) and
				  that holds an establishment number (prefix "M") granted by the Food Safety
				  Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture; or that is
				  made directly to federal agencies or that takes place on federal lands located
				  within the state; or
(3) Any sale
				  of whole pork meat which takes place on tribal lands located within the state;
				  or
(4) Donations to nonprofit
				  organizations that have a tax exemption under section
				  501(c)(3) of the
				  Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.).