Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 55-89 - Food, Lodging, and Recreation Safety › Chapter ATCP 70 - Wholesale Food Manufacturing › Subchapter I - Scope and Definitions › Section ATCP 70.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1) " Alcohol beverage" means an alcohol
				  beverage as defined in s.
				  125.02(1),
				  Stats.
(2) " Approved sanitizing
				  solution" means a substance or compound approved by the department for the
				  sanitizing of equipment or utensils under s. ATCP 70.28(5).
(3) " Bakery" means any place where bread,
				  cookies, crackers, pasta, or pies, or any other food product for which flour or
				  ground meal is the principal ingredient, are baked, cooked, or dried, or
				  prepared or mixed for baking, cooking, or drying, for sale as food.
(4) " Bottle" means the immediate package or
				  container in which bottled drinking water, soda water beverage, or alcohol
				  beverage is sold or distributed for consumption. "Bottle" includes a bottle cap
				  or other seal for a bottle.
(5) "
				  Bottled drinking water" means all water packaged in bottles or similar
				  containers and sold or distributed for drinking purposes. "Bottled drinking
				  water" includes distilled water, artesian water, spring water, and mineral
				  water, whether carbonated or uncarbonated.
(6) " Bottling establishment" means any place
				  where drinking water, soda water beverage, or alcohol beverage is manufactured
				  or bottled for sale. "Bottling establishment" does not include a retail
				  establishment either engaged in the preparation and sale of beverages, under a
				  license issued under s.
				  125.26
				  or
				  125.51,
				  Stats., or licensed under s.
				  97.30
				  or s.
				  97.605,
				  Stats.
(7) " C-I-P system" means
				  equipment which is designed, constructed, and installed to be cleaned in place
				  by the internal circulation of cleaning and sanitizing solutions onto product
				  contact surfaces. "C-I-P System" includes separate equipment used to store or
				  deliver cleaning and sanitizing solutions to the food contact
				  surfaces.
(8) " Canning" means the
				  preservation and packaging in hermetically sealed containers of low-acid or
				  acidified foods.
(9) " Cold-process
				  smoked fish" or "cold-process smoke flavored fish" means fish which is treated
				  with smoke or smoke flavoring to give it a smoked flavor, but which is not
				  fully cooked or heat treated to coagulate protein in fish loin muscle.
				  "Cold-process smoked fish" or "cold-process smoke flavored fish" may not be
				  heated above 90° F during processing because the safety of the treatment is
				  partially dependent on the survival of harmless microorganisms indigenous to
				  the fish.
(10) " Confectionary"
				  means any place where candy, fruit, nut meats, or any other food product is
				  manufactured, coated, or filled with saccharine substances for sale as
				  food.
(11) " Continuous operation"
				  means operating without interruption beyond 24 hours, with no interruptions
				  after 24 hours longer than a period approved by the department.
(12) " Critical control point" means a step
				  in food processing at which a failure to monitor a food safety parameter such
				  as pH, temperature, time, or water activity (a w), or a failure to control any
				  food safety parameter within critical limits or according to specific criteria,
				  may result in the unacceptable risk of a potentially adverse impact on human
				  health.
(13) " Department" means
				  the state of Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer
				  protection.
(14) " Equipment" means
				  an implement, vessel, machine, or apparatus, other than a utensil, which has
				  one or more food contact surfaces and is used in the handling or processing of
				  food at a food processing plant. "Equipment" includes C-I-P systems.
(15) " Facility" as used in s.
				  ATCP
				  70.04 has the meaning given in
				  21
				  CFR 117.3.
(16) " Fish" means fresh or saltwater
				  finfish; crustaceans; forms of aquatic life other than birds or mammals
				  including, but not limited to, alligators, frogs, aquatic turtles, jellyfish,
				  sea cucumber, sea urchin, and their roe; and all mollusks, if intended for
				  human consumption.
(17) " Fish
				  processing plant" means a food processing plant which produces processed fish
				  or fishery products.
(18) "Fishery
				  product" means any human food product in which fish is a characterizing
				  ingredient.
(19) " Food" means:
(a) Articles ingested as food or drink by
				  persons.
(b) Chewing gum.
(c) Components of articles specified in pars.
				  (a) and (b).