Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Chapter 40-7 - FOOD DIVISION REGULATIONS › Subject 40-7-11 - ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO THE SALE OF MEAT BY WEIGHT AND FOOD SERVICE CONTRACTS › Rule 40-7-11-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
The following words or terms shall have the meaning set forth
				  herein when used in these rules and regulations:
(a) "Buyer" means both actual and prospective
				purchasers of wholesale cuts and other food service plans.
(b) "Contract" means all written agreements
				subscribed to by a buyer and includes promissory notes, unless otherwise
				specified.
(c) "Food Service Plan"
				means any contract under which the seller agrees to furnish the buyer with any
				food products whether or not a membership fee or similar charge is involved. It
				includes, but is not limited to, a contract to furnish a wholesale cut or
				primal of beef, pork, lamb sheep or goat, same to be cut into consumer size
				cuts, wrapped and delivered to the consumer with or without other
				foods.
(d) "Misrepresent" means,
				but is not limited to, the use of any untrue, deceptive or misleading oral or
				written statement, advertising, label, display, picture, illustration, sample,
				or fanciful product names not approved by the Industrywide Cooperative Meat
				Identification Standards Committee of the National Livestock and Meat
				Board.
(e) "Firm" means
				individuals, corporations, partnerships and any other form of business
				organizations, and all officers, directors, agents, employees and
				representatives thereof. Firms include, but are not limited to, meat firms
				selling and cutting primal cuts when the wholesale cut is purchased by the
				buyer and food service contracts which include meat, meat food products and
				other food items. "Firm" does not include retail food stores cutting wholesale
				meats, all of which are to be delivered on a single order to one customer; and
				includes those firms other than retail food stores selling precut (wrapped
				individually or not individually wrapped) meats and other food products when
				sold by the box of five pounds or more at the time of sale by the unbroken box
				or by hanging weight. Meat processing firms, who are under inspection by the
				Meat Division of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, are not required to
				meet the provisions of this regulation.
(f) "Product/Meat" means beef, pork, lamb,
				sheep or goat unless otherwise indicated.
(g) "Represent" means, but is not limited to,
				the use of any form of oral or written statement, advertising, label, display,
				picture, illustration or sample.
(h) "Wholesale cut/Primal cut" means whole
				carcass of beef, pork or lamb or any part thereof customarily classified as
				being of commercial size and usually requiring further cutting into cuts or
				retail size when bought by, and cut for, use by buyers.
(i) "Bulk Meat" means wholesale cuts sold by
				hanging weight consisting of whole carcasses, sides or primal cuts or boxed
				meat sold in containers five (5) pounds or larger.
(j) "Department" means the Georgia Department
				of Agriculture.
(k)
				"Advertisements" include, but are not limited to, radio, newspapers, magazines,
				television, store flyers sent either by mail, distributed by hand, or
				otherwise, to homes, automobile windshields, and any other means.
(l) "Yield Grade" means the yield grade as
				officially used and described by the United States Department of Agriculture.
				(USDA Yield amounts to be supplied by USDA.)
Ga. L. 1956, p. 195 as
				  amended; O.C.G.A. Sec.
				  26-2-1
et
				  seq.