Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 55-89 - Food, Lodging, and Recreation Safety › Chapter ATCP 55 - Meat And Poultry Products › Section ATCP 55.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Adulterated" has the meaning given in
				9 CFR
				301.2.
(1g) " Amenable to inspection" means subject
				to mandatory inspection under
				21 USC
				451 to
				695
				or this chapter.
(1m) "Ante mortem
				inspection" means a pre-slaughter inspection of live food animals.
(2) "Captive game animals" means white-tailed
				deer and other animals of a normally wild type that are produced in captivity
				for slaughter and consumption. "Captive game animals" does not include
				farm-raised deer, ratites, captive game birds, fish, or animals kept solely for
				hunting purposes at a hunting preserve.
(3) " Captive game birds" means birds of a
				normally wild type, including pheasant, quail, wild turkey, or migratory
				wildfowl that are produced in captivity for slaughter and consumption. "Captive
				game birds" does not include poultry, ratites, or birds kept solely for hunting
				purposes in a hunting preserve.
(4)
				"Carcass" means all edible parts of a slaughtered animal, including edible
				viscera.
(4g) " Community supported
				agriculture business" means a farm with which individuals contract to regularly
				receive two or more different agricultural products, which may include uncooked
				poultry products, originating from the farm.
(4m) "Cooperative interstate shipment
				program" means the program under which an establishment licensed and inspected
				under this chapter and complying with applicable requirements in 9 CFR 321 and
				332, or applicable requirements of 9 CFR 381, Subparts R and Z, is allowed to
				distribute and sell in interstate commerce meat or poultry products
				manufactured bearing the mark of inspection authorized under s.
				ATCP 55.06(5)
				(j).
(5) "Custom processing" means slaughtering a
				food animal or processing meat products as a custom service for an individual
				who owns the animal or those meat products, and who uses all the resulting meat
				products for his or her own consumption. An individual's own consumption may
				include consumption by the owner, members of the owner's household, and the
				owner's nonpaying guests and employees. "Custom processing" includes mobile
				custom processing.
Note:
A provider of custom slaughtering services
				  does not "sell" the slaughtered food animal or the resulting meat, but merely
				  provides a service to the meat owner. An owner's nonpaying guests may include
				  nonpaying immediate family members.
(6) "Denature" means to intentionally make an
				item unfit for human consumption by adding a substance to it to alter the
				item's appearance or other natural characteristics.
(7) "Department" means the state of Wisconsin
				department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
(8) "Diseased animal" means an animal that
				has been diagnosed with a disease not known to be cured, or that has exhibited
				signs or symptoms of a disease not known to be cured. "Diseased animal" does
				not include an otherwise healthy animal that suffers only from injuries such as
				fractures, cuts, or bruises.
(9)
				"Domesticated food animal" means any of the following:
(a) Cattle.
(b) Swine.
(c) Poultry.
(d) Sheep.
(e) Goats.
(f) Farm-raised deer.
(g) Horses, mules and other
				equines.