Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part III - Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services › Subpart A - Solid Foods › Chapter 37 - FROZEN FOODS › Subchapter A - PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS › Section 37.1 - 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 the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Accessible
-Easily exposed for cleaning
						and inspection with the use of simple tools, such as those normally used by
						maintenance personnel.
Air temperature
-The equilibrated
						temperature of the air environment in question.
Break-up room
-Any area, or space within
						a warehouse, used primarily for the purpose of organizing cased frozen food
						into lots for individual consignment on route delivery.
Carrier
-Any person, firm, or
						corporation, operating or offering to operate, a vehicle for the purpose of
						transporting frozen food.
Department
-The Department of Agriculture
						of the Commonwealth.
Display case
-Any case, cabinet or other
						facility used for displaying frozen food for sale.
Food product zone
-Those surfaces with
						which food is normally in contact and those surfaces with which food may come
						in contact during processing, conveying, holding, refrigeration and packing,
						and which may drain onto product contact surfaces or into the product.
Freezing cycle
-Lowering the internal
						product temperature of a food product to a temperature of 0°F or
						lower.
Frozen food
-Any article used for food or
						drink by man or other animal which is all of the following:
(1) Processed.
(2) Packaged and preserved by freezing in
					 accordance with good commercial practices.
(3) Intended for sale in the frozen
					 state.
Internal product temperature
-The
						equilibrated product temperature of frozen food.
Operator
-Any person, firm or corporation
						operating or maintaining a frozen food plant or warehouse for the purpose of
						commercially preparing or storing frozen food.
Readily (or easily) accessible
-Easily
						exposed without the use of tools, for cleaning and inspection.
Readily removable
-When a component part
						shall be capable of being separated from the principal part without the use of
						tools.
Ready to eat frozen food
-A frozen food
						product which has been factory processed to the point at which it is ready for
						use as a food and may or may not require further heating before use.
Removable
-When a component part shall be
						capable of being separated from the principal part with the use of simple
						tools, such as those normally used by maintenance personnel.
Retail outlet
-Any building, room, or
						parts thereof, where the sale of frozen food is conducted to the ultimate
						consuming purchaser.
Route delivery
-The transportation of
						frozen food, with frequent stops for partial unloading.
Sale
-Any and every transaction including
						the dispensing, giving, delivering, serving, exposing, storing or any other
						possessing of frozen food wherein frozen food is subject to transfer to another
						person.
Secretary
-The Secretary of Agriculture
						of the Department.
Storage room or facility
-Any area or
						space within a warehouse used for the purpose of storing frozen food.
Transportation
-The physical movement, or
						the acceptance for physical movement, of frozen food by a carrier.
Vehicle
-Any van, truck, trailer,
						automobile, wagon, ship, barge, freight car, airplane or other means for
						transporting frozen food.
Warehouse
-Any structure, room or part
						thereof, used for the purpose of storing commercially processed or manufactured
						frozen food.