Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry › Chapter 37 - Food Safety › Subchapter 11 - Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 35:37-11-4 - Additional definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter,
					 shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Artificial coloring"
means a coloring
					 containing any dye or pigment, which dye or pigment was manufactured by a
					 process of synthesis other similar artifice, or a coloring that was
					 manufactured by extracting a natural dye or natural pigment from a plant or
					 other material in which such dye or pigment was naturally produced.
"Artificial flavoring"
means a flavoring
					 containing any sapid or aromatic constituent, which constituent was
					 manufactured by a process of synthesis or other similar artifice.
"Biological residue"
means any substance,
					 including metabolites, remaining in exotic livestock at the time of slaughter
					 or in any of its tissues after slaughter as a result of treatment or exposure
					 of the exotic livestock to a pesticide, organic or inorganic compound, hormone,
					 hormone like substance, growth promoter, antibiotic, anthelmintic,
					 tranquilizer, or other therapeutic or prophylactic agent.
"CFR"
means Code of Federal
					 Regulations.
"Carcass"
means all parts, including viscera,
					 of any slaughtered exotic livestock.
"Chemical preservative"
means any chemical
					 that, when added to an exotic meat or exotic meat food product, tends to
					 prevent or retard deterioration thereof, but does not include common salt,
					 sugars, vinegars, spices, or oils extracted from spices, or substances added to
					 exotic meat and exotic meat food products by exposure to wood smoke.
"Circuit supervisor"
means an authorized
					 employee of the Board who has supervisory responsibilities for enforcing the
					 rules of this Subchapter with jurisdiction over a defined geographical area of
					 Oklahoma which contains one or more districts, district supervisors, and
					 inspectors assigned thereto.
"Commerce"
means intrastate commerce within
					 this State.
"Director"
means the Director of Meat
					 Inspection, employed by the Board to act for it in matters as prescribed by the
					 rules of this Subchapter.
"District supervisor"
means an authorized
					 employee of the Board who has supervisory responsibilities for enforcing the
					 rules of this Subchapter, and has jurisdiction over a defined geographical
					 district of Oklahoma and the inspectors assigned thereto.
"Edible"
means intended for use as human
					 food.
"Immediate container"
means the receptacle or
					 other covering in which any product is directly contained or wholly or
					 partially enclosed.
"Inedible"
means adulterated, uninspected, or
					 not intended for use as human food.
"Official establishment"
means any
					 slaughtering, cutting, boning, curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering, or
					 similar establishment at which inspection is maintained under the rules of this
					 Subchapter.
"Oklahoma condemned"
means that the exotic
					 livestock so identified has been inspected and found to be in a dying
					 condition, or to be affected with any other condition or disease that would
					 require condemnation of its carcass.
"Oklahoma inspected and condemned"
means that
					 the carcass, viscera, or other part of carcass, or other product so identified
					 has been inspected, found to be adulterated, and condemned under the rules in
					 this Subchapter.
"Oklahoma inspected and passed"
means that the
					 meat, the byproducts, or the products derived from exotic livestock marked have
					 been inspected and passed under the rules in this Subchapter, and at the time
					 they were inspected, passed, and marked, they were found to be sound,
					 healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food.
"Oklahoma passed for cooking"
means that the
					 meat or byproduct derived from exotic livestock so identified has been
					 inspected and passed on condition that it be heat treated or rendered as
					 prescribed by the rules in this Subchapter.
"Oklahoma passed for refrigeration"
means that
					 the meat or by- product derived from exotic livestock so identified has been
					 inspected and passed on condition that it be refrigerated or handled as
					 prescribed by the rules in this Subchapter.
"Oklahoma retained"
means that the carcass,
					 viscera, other part of the carcass, or other product, or article so identified,
					 is held by an inspect or for further examination to determine its
					 disposal.
"Oklahoma suspect"
means that the exotic
					 livestock so identified is suspected of being affected with a disease or
					 condition which may require its condemnation, in whole or in part, when
					 slaughtered, and is subject to further examination by a veterinarian to
					 determine its disposal.
"Prepared"
means slaughtered, salted,
					 rendered, boned, cut up, or manufactured or processed.
"Shipping container"
means the outside
					 container (box, bag, barrel, crate, or other receptacle or covering) containing
					 or wholly or partly enclosing any product packed in one or more immediate
					 containers.
Added at 21 Ok Reg
					 1181, eff 5-27-04; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 2310, eff
					 7-11-05