California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 2 - Animal Industry › Chapter 5 - Poultry Inspection › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - Definitions › Section 1200 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) As
					 used in this subchapter, unless otherwise required by the context, the singular
					 form shall also import the plural and the masculine form shall also import the
					 feminine, and vice versa. For the purpose of these regulations the following
					 words, phrases, names, and terms shall be construed respectively to mean:
(1) Ante-mortem Inspection. Examination of
					 live poultry before slaughter to detect conditions that might render the
					 poultry unwholesome.
(2) "Area
					 Supervisor" means an official employed by the Department in charge of a
					 specified geographical region in California.
(3) Branch. The Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety
					 Branch of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
(4) Branch Employee. An employee of the Meat,
					 Poultry and Egg Safety Branch, of the California Department of Food and
					 Agriculture, who is authorized by the Branch Chief to do any work or perform
					 any duty in connection with plant sanitation or poultry meat
					 inspection.
(5) "California
					 Condemned" means that the poultry so identified has been inspected by an
					 inspector and found to be in a dying condition, or to be affected with any
					 other condition or disease that would require condemnation of its carcass or
					 its affected parts.
(6) "California
					 Inspected and Passed" means that the poultry product so identified has been
					 inspected by an inspector and passed under the regulations in this subchapter,
					 and at the time it was inspected, passed, and identified, it was found to be
					 not adulterated.
(7) "California
					 Rejected/Retained" means the Red or Green State of California Rejected/Retained
					 tag and used as follows:
(A) When the
					 Rejected box of the Red or Green tag is checked, it indicates that the
					 compartment, room, utensil, or piece of equipment so identified is unacceptable
					 for use in the official establishment and cannot be used until the condition
					 that renders it unacceptable is corrected.
(B) When the Retained box of the Red or Green
					 tag is checked, it indicates that the meat or poultry meat or meat or poultry
					 product so identified is unacceptable for use in the official establishment and
					 cannot be used until the condition is corrected.
(C) Only authorized employees of the
					 Department of Food and Agriculture can release or remove the Red California
					 Rejected/Retained tag; the Green California Rejected/Retained tag may be
					 detached only by a Livestock Inspector, Poultry Meat Inspector, or an
					 authorized employee of the Department of Food and
					 Agriculture.
(8)
					 "California Suspect" means that the poultry so identified by an inspector is
					 suspected of being affected with a disease or condition which may require its
					 condemnation, in whole or in part, when slaughtered, and is subject to further
					 examination by a program employee to determine its disposal.
(9) Condition. Any state, including, but not
					 being limited to, the state of preservation, cleanliness, or soundness of any
					 product; or any circumstance, including but not limited to, the processing,
					 handling, or packaging that affects such product.
(10) Department. The California Department of
					 Food and Agriculture.
(11) Dressed
					 Poultry. Poultry that has been slaughtered for human food with head, feet, and
					 viscera intact and from which the blood and feathers have been
					 removed.
(12) Edible Poultry
					 By-products. Any giblets or any edible part of dressed poultry other than
					 eviscerated poultry.
(13) Free From
					 Protruding Pinfeathers and Hair. Pinfeathers and vestigial feathers (hair or
					 down as the case may be) have been removed so that the carcass is free from
					 protruding pinfeathers and vestigial feathers that are visible to an inspector
					 or Branch employee during an examination of the carcass. However, a carcass may
					 be considered as free from protruding pinfeathers or vestigial feathers if it
					 has a generally clean appearance (especially on the breast) and if not more
					 than an occasional protruding pinfeather is in evidence during a more careful
					 examination of the carcass.
(14)
					 Giblets. The liver from which the bile sac has been removed, the heart from
					 which the pericardial sac has been removed and the gizzard from which the
					 lining and contents have been removed: provided, that each such organ has been
					 properly trimmed and washed.
(15)
					 Immediate Container, or True Container. The unit, can, pot, tin, or other
					 receptacle or covering in which any poultry meat or product is customarily
					 packed or shipped.
(16) Inspected
					 for Wholesomeness Under Supervision of the California Department of Food and
					 Agriculture, California Inspected and Passed, or Any Authorized Abbreviation
					 Thereof. That the poultry or poultry meat, poultry meat products, or poultry
					 meat food products so marked have been inspected under these regulations, and
					 that at the time they were inspected and so marked they were free from:
(A) Physical evidence of disease injurious to
					 human health;
(B) Pathological
					 conditions that have rendered or would render the poultry meat unsuited for
					 human food;
(C) Serious destruction
					 of the flesh by disease or injury; or
(D) Contamination by any substance injurious
					 to human health.
(17)
					 Inspection Mark. A mark or statement, authorized by these regulations, on a
					 product or on the container of a product, indicating that the product has been
					 inspected for wholesomeness by an inspector.
(18) Inspector. A Department employee
					 employed as a Veterinarian (Meat Inspection), Meat Food Inspector, Supervising
					 Meat Food Inspector, or Chief of the Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch, or an
					 industry-employed and Department-licensed Poultry Meat Inspector.
(19) Label. This term applies to any display
					 of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or any of its
					 containers or wrappers, or accompanying such article.
(20) Major Reconstruction. Major
					 reconstruction shall be construction other than that associated with normal or
					 routine maintenance activities.
(21) Mislabel. Means the placing, or presence
					 of any false, deceptive, or misleading mark, tag, brand, design, inscription,
					 statement, billing, invoice, placard sign, or other descriptive
					 designation.
(22) Official Plant or
					 Establishment. Any premises licensed by the Department where poultry is
					 slaughtered or otherwise prepared for food purposes and where state inspection
					 is maintained under these regulations.
(23) Potable Water. Water which is free from
					 disease producing organisms and injurious chemicals. It does not possess
					 obnoxious tastes or odors, and is not turbid or colored to a degree that it is
					 rendered repugnant to the consumer. Standards of tests to be used in
					 determining potability shall be the same as the standards of the National
					 Primary Drinking Water Standards,
					 40 CFR Part 141, sections
					 141.1,
					 141.2,
					 141.3,
					 141.4,
					 141.5,
					 141.6,
					 141.11,
					 141.13,
					 141.21,
					 141.22 and
					 141.23 (2007), which are
					 incorporated by reference.
(24)
					 Poultry. Domestic fowl and domesticated rabbit to be used for human food.
					 "Fowl" includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, squab, quail,
					 pheasant, ratites, and other domesticated birds.
(25) Poultry Meat Food Product. Any article
					 of food, or any article intended or capable of being used as human food that is
					 derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part from any
					 portion of poultry.
(26) Producer
					 means a person who is engaged in the business of growing any poultry, which is
					 marketed as poultry meat, for a period of three weeks or more for the purpose
					 of increasing the size and weight of such poultry.
(27) Product. Dressed poultry, ready-to-cook
					 poultry, edible poultry by-product and poultry meat food product.
(28) Ready-to-Cook Domestic Rabbits. Any
					 domestic rabbit that has been slaughtered for human food, from which the head,
					 blood, skin, feet, and inedible viscera have been removed, that is ready to
					 cook without need of further processing, or any cut-up or disjointed portion of
					 such domestic rabbit.
(29)
					 Ready-to-Cook Poultry. Any dressed poultry that is free from protruding
					 pinfeathers, vestigial feathers (hair or down as the case may be), and from
					 which the head, shanks, crop, preen gland, trachea, esophagus, entrails,
					 reproductive organs and lungs have been removed, and with or without the
					 giblets, is ready to cook without need of further processing. Ready-to-cook
					 poultry also means any cut-up or disjointed portion of poultry prepared as
					 described in this paragraph.
(30)
					 Regulations or These Regulations. Regulations contained in Subchapter 1,
					 Chapter 5, Title 3, of the California Code of Regulations.
(31) Retained for Further Inspection. That
					 each carcass, including all parts thereof so marked or identified, is held for
					 further examination by an inspector or Department employee to determine its
					 disposition.
(32) Shipping
					 Container. The box, bag, barrel, crate, or other receptacle or covering
					 inclosing any product packed in one or more immediate or true
					 containers.
(33) Soundness. Freedom
					 from external evidence of any disease or condition that may render a carcass
					 unfit for food.
(34) "Wholesome"
					 means any poultry meat food product fit for human consumption.
(35) For purposes of section
					 24713, Food and Agricultural Code,
					 the term "immediate family" means producers, their spouses, children, brothers,
					 sisters and parents. Other relatives of the producers by blood or by law will
					 be considered as qualifying if they reside on the same property as the poultry
					 operation or property that is contiguous to that property.