California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 2 - Foods and Drugs › Group 2 - DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS › Article 16 - PROCESSED PET FOOD REGULATIONS › Section 19005 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "Complete food"
						means a nutritionally adequate pet food compounded by a specific formula to be fed
						as the sole ration and capable of maintaining life and/or promoting normal
						reproduction in healthy pets without any additional substance being consumed except
						water, based upon the recommendations of recognized authority in the field of animal
						nutrition.
(b) "Balanced food" means a
						pet food having all known required nutrients in a proper amount and proportion based
						upon the recommendations of recognized authority in the field of animal nutrition
						for a given set of physiological animal requirements.
(c) "Edible" as used in this article is to be
						construed as food fit to be eaten by dogs, cats, or other domestic
						animals.
(d) "Meat" means the clean,
						wholesome flesh derived from slaughtered mammals and is limited to that part of the
						striated muscle which is skeletal or that which is found in the tongue, in the
						diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus; with or without the accompanying and
						overlying fat, and the portions of skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which
						normally accompany the flesh. The term "meat" when applied to the corresponding
						portions of mammals other than cattle, swine, sheep and goats shall be used in
						qualified form, for example, "horsemeat."
(e) "Meat by-products" is the non-rendered, clean,
						wholesome parts of the carcass of slaughtered mammals such as lungs, spleens,
						kidneys, brains, liver, stomach, bone, blood, and intestines free of their contents.
						It does not include skin, horns, teeth and hoofs. The term "meat by-products" when
						applied to the corresponding portions of mammals other than cattle, swine, sheep and
						goats shall be used in qualified form, as, for example, "horsemeat
						by-products."
(f) "Poultry" means the
						eviscerated carcass of slaughtered poultry, exclusive of the head, feet and
						feathers.
(g) "Poultry parts" means the
						clean, wholesome parts of dressed poultry characterized by large portions of bone
						such as necks, backs, and wings exclusive of feet, heads, viscera and
						feathers.
(h) "Poultry by-products"
						means the non-rendered, clean parts of carcasses of slaughtered poultry such as
						heads, feet, and viscera free from fecal content and foreign matter, except in such
						trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice.
(i) "Giblet" means the edible heart, liver, and
						gizzard of poultry.
(j) "Fish" means the
						fish and/or any part of fish used as a pet food ingredient with or without removal
						of entrails, head, tail and fins, except as provided in paragraph (k) of this
						section.
(k) "Fish by-products" means
						the heads, fins, tail ends, bones, skin and viscera of fish.
(l) "Fish meal" means the dried ground whole fish
						or fish cuttings, either or both, with or without extraction of part of the
						oil.
(m) The common names and
						definitions of other ingredients used in the processing of pet foods shall be those
						recognized in the Official Publication of Feed Control by the Association of
						American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Incorporated and/or the U.S. Department of
						Agriculture.
1. Amendment
						  filed 9-27-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No.
						  40).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
							 208 and
							 27040,
							 Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section
							 27040,
							 Health and Safety Code.