California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 2 - Animal Industry › Chapter 4 - Meat Inspection › Subchapter 2 - Rendering and Pet Food › Article 36 - Definitions › Section 1180 - 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.
(b) The
					 definitions in sections
					 19201,
					 19202,
					 19203,
					 19204,
					 19205,
					 19206,
					 19207,
					 19208,
					 19209,
					 19210,
					 19210.5,
					 19211,
					 19212,
					 19213,
					 19214,
					 19215, and
					 19216 of the Food and Agricultural
					 Code apply to this group, unless otherwise apparent from their context, and in
					 addition:
(1) The meaning of the term
					 "adulterated" is as set forth in section
					 113090
					 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2)
					 "Ante-mortem inspection" means the examination of animals before slaughter to
					 detect conditions that might make them unfit for human or animal
					 consumption.
(3) "Area Supervisor"
					 means an official employed by the Branch Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch in
					 charge of a specified geographical region in California.
(4) "Branch Chief" means the Branch Chief of
					 the Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch or any officer or employee of the
					 Department whose authority has been delegated or may be delegated to act in his
					 stead.
(5) "Branch employee" means
					 an employee of the Meat, Poultry and Egg Safety Branch of the
					 Department.
(6) "Business days"
					 means Monday through Friday, except days recognized as official State
					 holidays.
(7) "Container" means a
					 receptacle, such as a box, barrel, tank, or jar, for holding meat or meat
					 products, poultry meat or poultry meat products, animal carcasses or parts,
					 inedible kitchen grease, packinghouse waste, or other such items.
(8) "Custom processor" means a business that
					 cuts, grinds, packages, and otherwise prepares meat food products from
					 carcasses and parts of carcasses of livestock presented by the owner of the
					 carcasses and parts of carcasses of livestock. The prepared food products can
					 only be consumed by the owner, members of the owner's household, and the
					 owner's employees and non-paying guests.
(9) "Dead animal" means an animal that has
					 died other than by slaughter in an inspected establishment.
(10) "Denature" means to render unfit for
					 human food by the use of approved denaturing agents in accordance with section
					 1180.43 of Title 3, California Code
					 of Regulations.
(11) "Department"
					 means the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
(12) "Inedible" means adulterated,
					 uninspected, or not intended for use as human food.
(13) "Inspected establishment" means a meat
					 or poultry slaughter establishment or a meat and/or poultry processing
					 establishment in California that is licensed by the Meat, Poultry and Egg
					 Safety Branch of the Department or that operates under a grant of inspection
					 issued by the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA.
(14) "Interceptor/trap grease" means all
					 material, including inedible kitchen grease, greasy liquid, water, and solids,
					 removed from a grease interceptor or a grease trap.
(15) "In writing" or "written" means in print
					 in either a hard copy or electronic format.
(16) "Meat food product" means any article
					 intended for and capable of being used as pet food that is derived or prepared
					 in whole or substantial and definite part from any portion of any
					 animal.
(17) "Official
					 establishment" means any renderer, collection center, or pet food processor
					 that is licensed by the Department.
(18) "Owner" means a person in control of
					 property, including the legal owner, tenants or renters.
(19) "Pack" means to pack, repack, fill,
					 refill, wrap, rewrap, label, or relabel.
(20) "Packinghouse waste" means meat scraps,
					 offal, fat, bones, organs, hooves, intestines, hair, skin, hides, condemned
					 animal carcasses and other animal materials including fish, from
					 slaughterhouses, butcher shops, meat and poultry processing plants, retail
					 stores and other commercial facilities that dispose of animal
					 materials.
(21) "Personal,
					 noncommercial use" means use by the licensee or registrant and members of the
					 licensee or registrant's family related by blood or law who reside with the
					 licensee or registrant. Possession of more than 165 gallons of inedible kitchen
					 grease shall automatically disqualify anyone from inclusion in this definition
					 in accordance with Food and Agricultural Code section
					 19315. Transportation and/or use of
					 inedible kitchen grease from grease traps or interceptors do not qualify as
					 "personal, noncommercial use".
(22)
					 "Pet food" means any product intended for use as food for dogs, cats, or other
					 carnivora that is derived wholly or in part from the carcasses or parts or
					 products of the carcasses of animals.
(23) "Pet food processing" means chilling,
					 freezing, packing, repacking or otherwise handling any meat, meat food product,
					 meat by-product, or horsemeat by-product destined for use as pet
					 food.
(24) "Premises of a dead
					 animal hauler" means the premises on which the dead animal hauler maintains a
					 collection center and/or the premises where the dead animal hauler's trucks and
					 other vehicles are parked overnight and on weekends.
(25) "Prepare" means to slaughter, cut up,
					 bone, recut, grind, freeze, mold, pack, repack, label or relabel fresh or
					 frozen pet food or horsemeat subject to the authority of the
					 Department.
(26) "State of
					 California Rejected" means a compartment, room, piece of equipment, utensil, or
					 facility is tagged using MPI Form 79-028 (Rev. 01/75), California Retain/Reject
					 Tag.
(A) When the Rejected box of the tag is
					 checked, it indicates that the compartment, room, utensil, facility, or piece
					 of equipment so identified is unacceptable for use in the official
					 establishment and cannot be used until the condition that makes it unacceptable
					 is corrected.
(B) Only authorized
					 employees of the Department can remove the California Rejected/Retained
					 tag.
(27) "State of
					 California Retained" means a product is tagged using MPI Form 79-028 (Rev.
					 01/75), California Retain/Reject Tag.
(A)
					 When the Retained box of the 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 that makes
					 it unacceptable is corrected or the item is properly disposed of.
(B) Only authorized employees of the
					 Department can remove the California Rejected/Retained tag.
(28) "USDA" means the United States
					 Department of Agriculture.