Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › DAIRY, FOOD AND EGGS › Chapter 16-160 - Registration of materials for organic food production › Section 16-160-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Animal manure" means feces, urine, other excrement, and
				  bedding produced by livestock that has not been composted.
"Authorized representative" means either the registrant or a
				  person authorized by the registrant to act on the registrant's behalf and bind
				  the registrant for purposes of this chapter and registration on the brand
				  materials list.
"Compost" means the product of a managed process through
				  which microorganisms break down plant and animal materials into more available
				  forms suitable for application to the soil.
"Crop production aid" means any substance, material,
				  structure, or device that is used to aid a producer of an agricultural product
				  except for fertilizers and pesticides.
"Department" means the department of agriculture of the state
				  of Washington.
"Director" means the director of the department of
				  agriculture or the director's designee.
"Fertilizer" means a single or blended substance containing
				  one or more recognized plant nutrients which is used primarily for its plant
				  nutrient content and which is designed for use or claimed to have value in
				  promoting plant growth.
"Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic
				  material on the immediate container of an agricultural product or any such
				  material affixed to any agricultural product or affixed to a bulk container
				  containing an agricultural product, except for package liners or a display of
				  written, printed, or graphic material which contains only information about the
				  weight of the product.
"Labeling" includes all written, printed, or graphic material
				  accompanying an agricultural product at any time or written, printed, or
				  graphical material about the agricultural product displayed at retail stores
				  about the product.
"Livestock production aid" means any substance, material,
				  structure, or device that is used to aid a producer in the production of
				  livestock such as parasiticides, medicines, feed additives.
"Manufacturer" means a person that compounds, produces,
				  granulates, mixes, blends, repackages, or otherwise alters the composition of
				  materials.
"Material" means any substance or mixture of substances that
				  is intended to be used in agricultural production, processing, or
				  handling.
"National Organic Program" means the program administered by
				  the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to 7 C.F.R. Part 205,
				  which implements the federal Organic Food Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. Sec.
				  6501 et seq.).
"Organic waste-derived material" means grass clippings,
				  leaves, weeds, bark, plantings, prunings, and other vegetative wastes,
				  uncontaminated wood waste from logging and milling operations, food wastes,
				  food processing wastes, and materials derived from these wastes through
				  composting. "Organic waste-derived material" does not include products that
				  include biosolids as defined in chapter 70.95J RCW.
"Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership,
				  exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation, and any member, officer,
				  or employee thereof or assignee for the benefit of creditors.
"Pesticide" means, but is not limited to:
(a) Any substance or mixture of substances
				intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, or mitigate any insect, rodent,
				nematode, mollusk, fungus, weed, and any other form of plant or animal life or
				virus, except virus on or in living man or other animal, which is normally
				considered to be a pest or which the director may declare to be a
				pest;
(b) Any substance or mixture
				of substances intended to be used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or
				desiccant; and
(c) Any substance or
				mixture of substances intended to be used as a spray adjuvant.
"Post-harvest material" means any substance, material,
				  structure, or device that is used in the post-harvest handling of agricultural
				  products.
"Processing aid" means a substance that is added to a
				  food:
(a) During processing, but is
				removed in some manner from the food before it is packaged in its finished
				form;
(b) During processing, is
				converted into constituents normally present in the food, and does not
				significantly increase the amount of the constituents naturally found in the
				food; and
(c) For its technical or
				functional effect in the processing but is present in the finished food at
				insignificant levels and does not have any technical or functional effect in
				that food.
"Registrant" means the person registering a material on the
				  brand name materials list under the provisions of this chapter.
"Soil amendment" means any substance that is intended to
				  improve the physical characteristics of the soil, except for fertilizers and
				  pesticides.
"Spray adjuvant" means any product intended to be used with a
				  pesticide as an aid to the application or to the effect of the pesticide and
				  that is in a package or container separate from the pesticide. Spray adjuvant
				  includes, but is not limited to, wetting agents, spreading agents, deposit
				  builders, adhesives, emulsifying agents, deflocculating agents, and water
				  modifiers or similar agent with or without toxic properties of its own intended
				  to be used with any other pesticide as an aid to its application or to its
				  effect. Spray adjuvant does not include products that are only intended to mark
				  the location where a pesticide is applied.
"USDA" means the United States Department of
				  Agriculture.