Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 40 - Agriculture and Resource Marketing › Subchapter 20 - Marketing › Part 9 - Rules Related to Cultural Practices for Branding Products of the Farm (250-RICR-40-20-9) › Section 250-RICR-40-20-9.6 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. For the purposes of these regulations, the
				  following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Administrator" means the Administrator
				  for the Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of
				  Agriculture, or the representative to whom authority has been delegated to act
				  in the stead of the Administrator.
2. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Environmental Management.
3. "Division" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Environmental Management, Division of Agriculture.
4. "Organic advisory board" means an advisory
				  board comprised of individuals appointed by the Director.
5. "Rhode Island certified organic" means any
				  raw or processed agricultural product offered for sale or distribution that has
				  been produced upon a Rhode Island farm designated as a Rhode Island Certified
				  Organic Farm by the Rhode Island Division of Agriculture and Resource
				  Marketing, Department of Environmental Management. Farm Designation is based
				  upon the Act and the regulations in this Part.
6. "Rhode Island certified organic farm"
				  means a farm that meets the requirements of the Act and the regulations in this
				  Part for organic certification and has been inspected and issued a certificate
				  by the Division of Agriculture and Resource Marketing.
7. "Rhode Island certified organic handler"
				  means a handler of organic product that meets the requirements of the Act and
				  the regulations in this Part and has been inspected and issued a certificate by
				  the Division of Agriculture and Resource Marketing.
8. "Rhode Island certified transitional"
				  means any raw or processed agricultural product offered for sale or
				  distribution that has been produced upon a Rhode Island farm designated as a
				  Rhode Island Certified Transitional Farm by the Department. Farm Designation is
				  based upon R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 21-20 and the regulations in this
				  Part.
9. "Rhode Island certified
				  transitional farm" means a farm that meets the requirements of R.I. Gen. Laws
				  Chapter 21-20 and the regulations in this Part for transitional certification
				  and has been inspected and issued a certificate by the Division of Agriculture
				  and Resource Marketing.
10. "The
				  Act" means The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990,
				  7 U.S.C. §
												6501 et seq.
11. "Transition" means the act of
				  establishing organic management practices in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws
				  Chapter 21-20 and these regulations.
12. "Transition period" means the time
				  between the start of organic management and certification of an operation or
				  portion of an operation as organic.
13. "Transitional product" means a product
				  from an operation or portion of an operation which has completed one or more
				  years of the transition period towards becoming a certified organic operation
				  and is certified by the Department in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  21-20 and these regulations.