Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part III - Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services › Subpart A - Solid Foods › Chapter 49 - SHELLFISH › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 49.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless otherwise defined in the NSSP Model
						Ordinance:
Dealer
-A shellstock shipper,
						shucker-packer, repacker, reshipper or depuration processor.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture
						of the Commonwealth.
Depuration
or
controlled
						purification
-The process that uses a controlled aquatic environment to
						reduce the level of pathogens or poisonous or deleterious substances in live
						shellfish.
Facility
-A structure.
Food Act
-The Food Act (31 P. S. §
												§
												20.1-20.18).
Freight-forwarder
-A person who
						transports shellfish for a third party owner by vehicle or vessel, or who
						stores shellfish at a location for a short period of time while the shellfish
						are in transit.
HACCP-Hazard Analysis Critical Control
						Point
-A system devedoped by the National Advisory Committee on
						Microbiological Criteria for Foods that identifies and monitors specific
						foodborne hazards that can adversely affect the safety of the food
						products.
NSSP Model Ordinance or National Shellfish
						Sanitation Program Model Ordinance
-As set forth in the
Guide
						for the Control of Molluscan Shellfish
under the purview of the
						Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, and published by the United States
						Department of Health and Human Services; Public Health Services; Food and Drug
						Administration, or the most current successor document.
Person
-An individual, partnership,
						association, company, corporation or other legal entity. The term includes the
						officers, employes and agents of a partnership, association, company,
						corporation or other legal entity.
Repacker
-A person other than the
						original certified shucker-packer who repacks shucked shellfish into other
						containers for distribution or sale, or repacks and resells shellstock but does
						not shuck shellfish.
Reshipper
-A person who purchases shucked
						shellfish or shellstock from other certified shippers and sells the product,
						without repacking or relabeling, to other certified shippers, wholesalers or
						retailers.
Secretary
-The Secretary of the
						Department.
Shellstock shipper
-A person who grows,
						harvests, buys or repacks, and sells shellstock. The term includes a shipper
						who ships previously shucked and packed shellfish, but does not shuck shellfish
						nor repack shucked shellfish.
Shucker-packer
-A person who shucks and
						packs shellfish or who acts as a shellstock shipper or reshipper, or who
						repacks shellfish originating from other shellfish facilities that are
						certified in accordance with §
											49.3 (relating to certification and
						compliance).
The provisions of this §
													49.1 amended under the act of May
						  23, 1945 (P. L. 926, No. 369) (35 P. S. §
														§
														655.1-655.13); and sections 1917-A and 1920-A
						  of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
														§
														510-17 and
						  510-20).