The Florida Senate

585.70  Definitions.--In construing this part, the term:

(1)  "Animal" includes any equine, bovine, goat, sheep, swine, or poultry, or any other species of animal the department by rule authorizes to be slaughtered and sold for human consumption.

(2)  "Carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of any slaughtered livestock or poultry.

(3)  "Establishment" means any building or structure in which animals are slaughtered or animal product is prepared, the ground upon which such building or structure is erected, and as much ground adjacent thereto as is used in conducting the business of such facility, including drains, gutters, waste disposal, and cesspools used in connection with the facility.

(4)  "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means the act so entitled, approved June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1040, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

(5)  "Federal Meat Inspection Act" means the act so entitled, approved December 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, as amended.

(6)  "Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act" means the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, approved August 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 441, as amended.

(7)  "Intrastate commerce" means transporting, buying, and selling products within the state and applies to meat, meat food products, poultry meat, and poultry food products and other such articles.

(8)  "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article, not including the package liner.

(9)  "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or any of its containers, or accompanying such article.

(10)  "Meat" means the part of the muscle of any animal, other than poultry, which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing.

(11)  "Meat byproduct" means any part of any animal, other than poultry, capable of use as human food, other than meat, which has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine, or goats. This term, as applied to products of equines, has a meaning comparable to that provided in this subsection with respect to cattle, sheep, swine, and goats.

(12)  "Meat food product" means any product of any animal, other than poultry, capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of an animal, other than poultry, except products that contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or that historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempt from definition as a meat food product by the department under such conditions as the department may prescribe.

(13)  "Nontraditional livestock" means any deer, bison, cattalo, ostrich, emu, rhea, or other animal that is raised for commercial purposes on a ranch or farm and that may be slaughtered and sold for human consumption.

(14)  "Pet food" means any article intended for use as food for dogs, cats, or other animals, derived wholly or in part from the carcass, or parts or products of the carcass of any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animal. The term "pet food" does not include processed dry pet food or animal feeds, such as meat meal tankage, bloodmeal, and feed-grade animal fat.

(15)  "Poultry" means any chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, or guineas.

(16)  "Poultry byproduct" means any part or parts of poultry, other than eggs, capable of use as human food, other than poultry carcasses, which have been derived from one or more birds. This term, as applied to products of poultry, has a meaning comparable to that provided for the term "meat byproduct."

(17)  "Poultry food product" means any product of poultry, other than eggs, capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any poultry meat or other portion of the carcass of poultry, except products that contain poultry meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or that historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempt from definition as a poultry food product by the department under such conditions as the department may prescribe.

(18)  "Poultry meat" means the carcass or parts of such carcass of any poultry.

(19)  "Prepare" means slaughter, can, salt, render, bone, cut up, or otherwise manufacture or process, or package, any animal product.

(20)  "Product" or "animal product" means any animal carcass, meat, meat byproduct, meat food product, poultry byproduct, poultry meat, or poultry food product, capable of use as human food, or as otherwise provided for.

History.--s. 43, ch. 90-321; s. 7, ch. 91-294; s. 39, ch. 94-180.