Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › DAIRY, FOOD AND EGGS › Chapter 16-157 - Organic food standards and certification › Section 16-157-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Department" means the Washington state department of
				  agriculture.
"Director" means the director of the department of
				  agriculture or his or her duly authorized representative.
"Facility" includes, but is not limited to, any premises,
				  plant, establishment, facility and associated appurtenances where organic
				  products are prepared, handled, or processed in any manner for resale or
				  distribution to retail outlets, restaurants, and any other such facility
				  selling or distributing to consumers.
"Gross annual income" means the total monetary value received
				  during the previous calendar year.
"Handler" means any person engaged in the business of
				  handling agricultural products, including producers who handle crops or
				  livestock of their own production.
"Handling operation" means any operation or portion of an
				  operation that receives or otherwise acquires agricultural products and
				  processes, packages, or stores such products.
"New applicant" means any person who applies for organic
				  certification for the first time, or any person who has surrendered an organic
				  certification or had an organic certification suspended or revoked.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, limited liability
				  company, association, cooperative, or other entity.
"Processor" means any handler engaged in the canning,
				  freezing, drying, dehydrating, cooking, pressing, powdering, packaging, baking,
				  heating, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting,
				  fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, jarring, slaughtering or otherwise
				  processing organic products.
"Producer" means a person who engages in the business of
				  growing or producing food, fiber, feed, and other agricultural-based consumer
				  products.
"Production operation" means a farm, ranch, or other business
				  that grows, gathers, or raises crops, wild crops, or livestock.
"Renewal applicant" means any person that has received
				  organic certification from the department in the previous year.
"Retailer" means any handler that sells organic food products
				  directly to consumers.
"Sale" means selling, offering for sale, holding for sale,
				  preparing for sale, trading, bartering, offering a gift as an inducement for
				  sale of, and advertising for sale in any media.
"Site" means a contiguous defined field, orchard, block,
				  pasture, paddock, garden, circle, plot or other designated area under the same
				  management practices (e.g., organic, transitional).
"Transitional product" means any agricultural product that
				  (a) is marketed using the term transitional in its labeling and advertising and
				  (b) satisfies all of the requirements of organic except that it has had no
				  applications of prohibited substances within one year prior to the harvest of
				  the crop.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.86.060 and
					 15.86.070. 06-23-108, §
					 16-157-030, filed 11/17/06, effective 12/18/06. Statutory Authority:
					 Chapter
					 15.86 RCW. 03-03-044,
					 § 16-157-030, filed 1/10/03, effective 2/10/03; 02-10-090, §
					 16-157-030, filed 4/29/02, effective
					 5/30/02.