Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part V - Advertising, Marketing and Processing › Chapter 16 - Meat, Poultry and Seafood Grading and Certification Program › Section V-1603 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The terms
				defined in §1603 have the meaning
				given to them herein, for purposes of these regulations, except where the
				context expressly indicates otherwise.
Certification
-a document or a stamp applied
				  to any package containing any meat, poultry or seafood food product, which
				  verifies that the food product meets the specification requirements established
				  by the department.
Commission
-the State Market
				  Commission.
Commissioner
-Commissioner of the Department
				  of Agriculture and Forestry.
Department
-the Department of Agriculture and
				  Forestry.
Food Product
-any edible item which includes,
				  3 percent or more by weight, meat, poultry or seafood, and, regardless of
				  whether it is raw, precooked or fully cooked, is capable of use as human
				  food.
Food Service Facility
-any place where a food
				  product is prepared, packaged or served in portions designed for individual
				  consumption by people. The term includes any such place regardless of whether
				  consumption is on or off the premises and regardless of whether there is a
				  charge for the food.
Grade
-the combined group of standards that a
				  food product must meet to be in accordance with the appropriate certification
				  requirements.
Local School District
-any elementary or
				  secondary school system operated by any parish, city or other public school
				  board and any public charter school or any other independent public school
				  authorized by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Meat
-any part of any cattle or other bovine,
				  swine, sheep, or goat capable of use as human food.
Person
-any individual, corporation,
				  partnership, association, or any other legal entity, whether for profit or
				  nonprofit, who, through contract with the state of Louisiana, any state agency,
				  any state institution or local school district operates a food service facility
				  that supplies, provides or serves food products available for consumption by
				  any student, resident, patient or inmate of any state agency, state institution
				  or local school district.
Poultry
-any part of any chicken, turkey,
				  duck, goose or other domesticated fowl, quail, pheasant, ostrich, emu, or other
				  ratites, or any other type of bird, eggs and domesticated rabbits capable of
				  use as human food.
Public Entity
-any state agency, state
				  institution, local school district or person operating one or more food service
				  facility that supplies, provides or serves food products available for
				  consumption by any student, resident, patient or inmate of any state agency,
				  state institution or local school district.
Seafood
-any fresh or salt water finfish,
				  farm-raised catfish, shrimp, crawfish, lobsters, oysters and all other edible
				  shellfish, crustaceans, and mollusks, alligators, frogs, turtles and any other
				  form of edible aquatic animal life regardless of whether farm raised or caught
				  in privately owned waters or public waters including the sea, streams and
				  lakes.
State Agency
-any board, commission,
				  department, agency, special district, authority or other entity performing a
				  state function.
State Institution
-any university, college or
				  center of higher learning, hospital, clinic, veterans or geriatric home, mental
				  institution, juvenile facility, prison or any other facility operated by a
				  state agency, or through a contract with the state of Louisiana or any state
				  agency, by any private, whether for profit or nonprofit, individual,
				  corporation, association or other legal entity for the purpose of teaching,
				  treating, incarcerating, maintaining or housing students, residents, patients
				  or inmates.
Vendor
-any individual, corporation,
				  partnership, association or other legal entity that sells any type of food
				  product to any state agency, state institution, local school district or person
				  operating a food service facility, as defined herein, that supplies, provides
				  or serves food products available for consumption by any student, resident,
				  patient or inmate of any state agency, state institution or local school
				  district.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  3:405, R.S. 3:410 and
				  R.S.
				  39:2101.