Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 35 - SHELLFISH SANITATION › Section 11-35-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
"Action level" means the interim limit established for a
				  deleterious substance present in a product or an environment, above which level
				  control or regulatory action may be required to protect public health.
"Alert level" means the level of deleterious substance in a
				  product or an environment indicating degradation and warranting increased
				  monitoring and sampling.
"Approved growing area", means an area which has been
				  approved by the department for growing and harvesting of shellfish for direct
				  marketing.
"Artificial growing system for shellfish" means a man-made
				  system with definite boundaries in which shellfish are grown and where
				  supplemental material is introduced for ultimate utilization by the
				  shellfish.
"Blower" means the tank or vat used for washing shucked
				  shellfish, utilizing forced air as a means of agitation.
"Classes of shippers" means
(1) reshippers (RS), persons who transship shucked stock in
				  original containers, or shell stock, from certified shellfish shippers to other
				  dealers or to final consumers;
(2) repackers (RP), persons, other than the original shucker,
				  who pack shucked shellfish into containers for delivery to the
				  consumers;
(3) shellstock shippers (SS), persons who grow, harvest, buy,
				  or sell shellstock and do not shuck shellfish or repack shucked
				  shellfish;
(4) shucker-packers (SP), persons who shuck and pack
				  shellfish.
"Coliform groups" means all of the aerobic and facultative
				  anaerobic, gram-negative, non-spore-forming bacilli which ferment lactose with
				  gas formation within forty-eight hours at 35°C.
"Culling" means the sorting and removal of dead, inferior or
				  gaping shellfish.
"Department" means the Hawaii state department of
				  health.
"Depuration" means the process of removing microbial
				  contaminants from live shellfish by placing them in a water environment of low
				  coliform, low turbidity, and free from chemicals which are detrimental to
				  health.
"Director" means the director of health or his
				  designee.
"Dry storage" means the storage of shellstock out of
				  water
"Fetal coliform group" means any bacteria as defined under
				  the coliform group which will produce gas in Escherichia coli (E.C.) medium
				  within twenty-four hours at 44.5°c in a water bath.
"Growing area" means any offshore ocean, coastal, estuarine
				  or fresh water area suitable for natural shellfish growth artificial shellfish
				  propagation.
"Harvester" means a person who takes shellfish from growing
				  areas for commercial purposes.
"Internal temperature" means the actual temperature of
				  shucked shellfish in the container or of shellstock, as opposed to the air
				  temperature of the refrigerator in which the shellfish may be stored.
"Lot of shellstock" means a collection of no more than one
				  day's production of shellstock harvested from a particular growing area by one
				  or more harvesters.
"Most probable number (MPN)" means a statistical estimate of
				  the number of bacteria per unit volume which is determined from the number of
				  positive results in a series of fermentation tubes.
"National Shellfish Sanitation Program" means the
				  cooperative federal, state and industry program for the certification of
				  interstate shellfish shippers as described in Public Health Service Publication
				  Number 33, National Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual] of Operations, Parts I
				  and II, (1965).
"Paralytic shellfish poisons" means poisons produced by
				  free-swimming, one-celled marine organisms, including the dinoflagellates,
				  Gonvaulax catenella, Gonvaulax tamarensis, Gvmnodinium breve, which may be
				  temporarily concentrated by shellfish.
"Pathogen" means any disease-producing microorganism or
				  material.
"Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, company,
				  corporation, trustee, association, or any public or private entity.
"Processor" means a repacker, shellstock shipper, or
				  shucker-packer.
"Prohibited area" means a shellfish growing area where
				  hazardous levels of toxic material or pathogens may be found or where a
				  sanitary survey has not been made.
"Relaying" means the moving of market shellfish from waters
				  classified as restricted or prohibited to an approved area for the purpose of
				  natural purification.
"Restricted area" means a shellfish growing area subjected
				  to moderate degrees of pollution (total coliform exceeding seventy per one
				  hundred milliliter (ml), but not exceeding seven hundred per one hundred ml)
				  which would make it unsafe to harvest shellfish for direct marketing but from
				  which shellfish may be subject to depuration or relaying with approval of the
				  department.
"Sanitary survey" means the evaluation of all factors having
				  a bearing on the sanitary quality of a shellfish growing area including sources
				  of pollution, the effects of wind, tides, and currents, and distribution and
				  dilution of the polluting materials, and the bacteriological quality of the
				  water.
"Shellfish" means all edible species of oysters, clams, and
				  mussels of the molluscan class Pelecypoda.
This definition excludes shellfish or products thereof
				  which, in their final packaging have been heat-sterilized and packaged in
				  hermetically sealed containers.
"Shellfish, market" means fresh or frozen shellfish, or
				  parts thereof, sold for human consumption.
"Shellstock" means shellfish still in their shells.
"Shucked shellfish" means shellfish, or parts thereof, which
				  have been removed from their shells.
"Skimmer table" means a shallow, perforated table used in
				  washing and draining of shucked shellfish.
"Transplanting" means the moving of shellfish from one area
				  to another for the purpose of propagation or for reharvesting after an adequate
				  period for acclimatization and growth to market size.
"Wet storage" means the temporary storage of shellfish from
				  approved sources intended for marketing in tanks, floats or in natural bodies
				  of water.