§ 15.86.020. Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or the director's designee.
(2) "Organic food" means any agricultural product, in whole or in part, including meat, dairy, and beverage, that is marketed using the term organic or any derivative of organic and that is produced, handled, and processed in accordance with this chapter.
(3) "Producer" means any person or organization who or which grows, raises, or produces an agricultural product.
(4) "Handler" means any person who sells, distributes, or packs organic or transitional products.
(5) "Transitional food" means any food product that satisfies all of the requirements of organic food except the time requirements as defined in rule.
(6) "Organic certifying agent" means any third-party certification organization that is recognized by the director as being one which imposes, for certification, standards consistent with this chapter.
(7) "Processor" means any person engaged in the canning, freezing, drying, dehydrating, cooking, pressing, powdering, packaging, baking, heating, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, jarring, or otherwise processing organic food.
(8) "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.
(9) "Department" means the state department of agriculture.
(10) "Represent" means to hold out as or to advertise.
(11) "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.
[2002 c 220 § 2; 1992 c 71 § 2; 1989 c 354 § 32; 1985 c 247 § 2.]
Notes:
Severability -- 1989 c 354: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
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