California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

• Section 19200.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this article govern the construction of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 815.)
• Section 19201.
  “Animals” means burros, cattle, goats, horses, mules, sheep, swine and other large domesticated animals and poultry.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 815.)
• Section 19202.
  “Bureau” means Bureau of Meat and Poultry Inspection of the Department of Food and Agriculture.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 699, Sec. 3.)
• Section 19203.
  “Canned pet food” means any commercially sterile food product packed in hermetically sealed containers and composed of either edible fresh or frozen meat or horsemeat,...
• Section 19204.
  “Collection center” means a receiving area for the temporary storage of animal carcasses, packinghouse waste, or other products before transportation to a licensed rendering plant...
• Section 19205.
  “Dead animal hauler” means any person or company that engages in the business of transporting the carcasses of dead animals.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 187,...
• Section 19206.
  “Edible” means food fit to be eaten by dogs, cats, or other carnivora.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 815.)
• Section 19207.
  “Horsemeat byproducts” means the parts other than horsemeat which have been derived from horses, mules or burros, or any combination of them.(Added by Stats. 1969,...
• Section 19208.
  “Horsemeat” means the uncooked muscle tissue of horse, mule or burro, or any combination thereof, which is skeletal, with or without the accompanying and overlaying...
• Section 19209.
  “Inspected horsemeat” means horsemeat produced in a slaughtering establishment under federal, state or state-approved municipal inspection.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 815.)
• Section 19210.
  “Meat” means the uncooked muscle tissue of a cow, goat, sheep, swine, or poultry which is skeletal, with or without the accompanying and overlaying fat,...
• Section 19210.5.
  “Meat byproducts” means the edible parts other than meat which have been derived from cattle, goats, sheep, swine, or poultry or any combination of them.(Added...
• Section 19211.
  “Pet” means any household animal including but not limited to cats or dogs and other carnivora, whether or not for public exhibition.(Added by Stats. 1969,...
• Section 19212.
  “Processed pet food” means a food for pets which has been prepared by heating, drying, semidrying, canning, or by a method of treatment prescribed by...
• Section 19213.
  “Rendering” means all recycling, processing, and conversion of animal and fish materials and carcasses and inedible kitchen grease into fats, oils, proteins, and other products...
• Section 19214.
  “Slaughter” means to kill live animals and prepare for consumption for pet food purposes.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 815.)
• Section 19215.
  “Transporter of inedible kitchen grease” means any person who transports inedible kitchen grease.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 535, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2003.)
• Section 19216.
  “Inedible kitchen grease” means any fat or used cooking greases and oils obtained from any source.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 699, Sec. 5.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018