Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry › Chapter 37 - Food Safety › Subchapter 9 - Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Regulations › Part 1 - GENERAL › Section 35:37-9-1 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this Subchapter
					 shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
"Acceptable"
means suitable for the purpose
					 intended and acceptable to the Service.
"Act"
means the applicable provisions of the
					 "Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act".
"Animal food manufacturer"
means any person
					 engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived
					 wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of
					 rabbits.
"Applicant"
means any interested party who
					 requests any inspection service.
"Board"
means the State Board of
					 Agriculture.
"Carcass"
means any rabbit carcass.
"CFR"
means the Code of Federal
					 Regulations.
"Circuit supervisor"
means any employee of the
					 Department in charge of rabbit inspection service in a designated geographical
					 area.
"Class"
means any subdivision of a product
					 based on essential physical characteristics that differentiate between major
					 groups of the same kind.
"Commissioner"
means the Commissioner of
					 Agriculture or any other officer or employee of the Department to who there has
					 heretofore been delegated, or to whom there may hereafter be delegated, the
					 authority to act in his or her stead.
"Condition"
means any condition, including,
					 but not being limited to, the state of preservation, cleanliness, or soundness,
					 of any product or the processing, handling, or packaging which may affect such
					 product.
"Department"
means the Oklahoma State
					 Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
"Director"
means the Director of the Meat
					 Inspection Service, employed by the Board to act for it in matters as
					 prescribed by these rules and regulations for Meat Inspection.
"District Supervisor"
or technical supervisor"
					 means the officer in charge of the rabbit inspection service in a circuit
					 consisting of a group of stations within an area.
"Edible product"
means any product derived
					 from ready-to-cook domestic rabbits.
"Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
means
					 the act so entitled, approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat.1040), and act amendatory
					 thereof or supplementary thereto.
"Federal Meat Inspection Act"
means the act so
					 entitled approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260) as amended by the Wholesome
					 Meat Act (8 Stat.584).
"Giblets"
means the liver from which the bile
					 sac has been removed and the heart from which the pericardium has been removed
					 and the kidneys.
"Holiday"
or
"legal holiday"
shall mean the legal public holidays proclaimed by the Governor of the state of
					 Oklahoma.
"Identify"
means to apply official
					 identification to product or to containers thereof.
"Inspection certificate"
means a statement,
					 either written or printed, issued by an inspector, pursuant to the regulations
					 relative to the condition and wholesomeness of products.
"Inspection legend"
means the inspection mark,
					 and any other mark, or any variations in such marks, approved by the Board and
					 authorized to be affixed to any product, or affixed to or printed on the
					 packaging material of any product, stating that the product was inspected, or
					 indicating the condition of the product, or for the purpose of maintaining the
					 identity of products inspected under these regulations, including, but not
					 limited to that set forth in
					 35:37-9-21.
"Inspector"
means any person who is duly
					 qualified and certified as an agent of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
					 Food, and Forestry.
"Interested party"
means any person
					 financially interested in a transaction involving any inspection.
"Intrastate commerce"
means commerce within
					 this state.
"Label"
means a display of written, printed,
					 or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including
					 package liners, or any article.
"Laboratory"
means:
(A) a room or building equipped for scientific
					 experimentation or research.
(B) a place where drugs and chemicals are
					 manufactured.
(C) a place for practice, observation or testing.
"Official certificate"
means any certificate
					 prescribed by regulation of the Board for issuance by an inspector or other
					 person performing official functions pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit
					 Products Inspection Act.
"Official device"
means any device prescribed
					 or authorized by the Board for use in applying any official mark.
"Official inspection legend"
means any symbol
					 prescribed by regulation of the Board showing that an article was inspected for
					 wholesomeness in accordance with the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products
					 Inspection Act.
"Official mark"
means the official inspection
					 legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulation of the Board to identify
					 the status of any article or rabbit pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit
					 Products Inspection Act.
"Official plant"
or "official establishment"
					 means one or more buildings or parts thereof, comprising a single plant in
					 which the facilities and methods of operation therein have been approved by the
					 Commissioner as suitable and adequate for operation under inspection
					 service.
"Person"
means any individual, partnership,
					 corporation, association, or other business unit.
"Pesticide chemical"
,
"food
					 additive"
,
"color additive"
, and "raw agricultural
					 commodity" means these terms shall have the same meanings for purposes of the
					 Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act as such term is defined by
					 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
"Potable water"
means water that has been
					 approved by the State Health Department or the State Department of Agriculture,
					 Food, and Forestry as safe for drinking and suitable for food
					 processing.
"Processed"
means slaughtered, canned, salted,
					 stuffed, rendered, boned, cut-up, or otherwise manufactured, processed, or
					 repackaged.
"Rabbit"
means any domesticated rabbit,
					 whether live or dead.
"Rabbit inspection service"
means the
					 personnel who are engaged in the administration, application, and direction of
					 rabbit inspection programs and services pursuant to the regulations.
"Rabbit product"
means any rabbit carcass, or
					 part thereof; or any product which is made wholly or in part from any rabbit
					 carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain rabbit ingredients
					 only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered
					 by consumers as products of the animal food industry, and which are exempted by
					 the Board from definition as a rabbit product under such conditions as the
					 Board may prescribe to assure that the rabbit ingredients in such products are
					 not adulterated and that such products are not represented as rabbit
					 products.
"Rabbit products broker"
means any person
					 engaged in the business of buying or selling rabbit products on commission, or
					 otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his
					 own account or as an employee of another person.
"Ready-to-cook domestic rabbit"
means any
					 rabbit that has been slaughtered for human food, from which the head, blood,
					 skin, feet, and inedible viscera have been removed, that is ready to cook
					 without need of further processing. Ready-to-cook rabbit also means any cut-up
					 or disjointed portion of rabbit or any edible part thereof, as described in
					 this paragraph.
"Regulations"
means regulations promulgated by
					 the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture governing the inspection of rabbits and
					 rabbit products.
"Renderer"
means any person engaged in the
					 business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of
					 rabbits.
"Service"
means the rabbit inspection program
					 of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
Added at 21 Ok Reg
					 1181, eff 5-27-04