Okla. Stat. tit. 2 § 6-280.3

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 6-280.3 - Definitions

For the purposes of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act:

1. "Adulterated" shall apply to any carcass, part thereof, rabbit or rabbit products under one or more of the following circumstances:

a. if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance, such article shall not be considered adulterated under this paragraph if the quantity of such substance in or on such article does not ordinarily render it injurious to health,

b. if it bears or contains, by reason of administration of any substance to live rabbits or otherwise, any added poisonous or added deleterious substance, other than one which is:

(1) a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity,

(2) a food additive, or

(3) a color additive;

which may, in the judgment of the Board, make such article unfit for human food;

c. if it is, in whole or in part, a raw agricultural commodity and such commodity bears or contains a pesticide chemical which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,

d. if it bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,

e. if it bears or contains any color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of Section 706 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Provided, that an article which is not otherwise deemed adulterated under subparagraph b, c, or d, shall nevertheless be deemed adulterated if use of the pesticide chemical, food additive, or color additive in or on such article is prohibited by regulations of the Board in establishments at which inspection is maintained pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act,

f. if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or is for any other reason unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food;

g. if it has been prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health,

h. if it is, in whole or in part, the product of any rabbit which has died otherwise than by slaughter,

i. if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health,

j. if it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a regulation or exemption in effect pursuant to Section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or

k. if any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom; or if any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part therefor; or if damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner; or if substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength, or make it appear better or of greater value than it is;

2. "Board" means the State Board of Agriculture;

3. "Animal food manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of rabbits;

4. "Capable of use as human food" shall apply to any carcass, or part or product of a carcass, of any rabbit, unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board to deter its use as human food, or it is naturally inedible by humans;

5. "Department" means the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture;

6. "Federal Meat Inspection Act" means the act so entitled approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260) as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act (8 Stat. 584);

7. "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;

8. "Inspection" or "inspection service" means any inspection by an inspector to determine:

a. the condition and wholesomeness of rabbits,

b. the condition and wholesomeness of any edible product at any state of the preparation or packaging thereof in the official plant where inspected and certified, or

c. the condition and wholesomeness of any previously inspected and certified product if such product has not lost its identity as an inspected and certified product;

9. "Inspector" means any person who is duly qualified and certified as an agent of the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture;

10. "Intrastate commerce" means commerce within this state;

11. "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any article;

12. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter:

a. upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or

b. accompanying such article;

13. "Misbranded" shall apply to any carcass, part thereof, rabbit meat or rabbit product under one or more of the following circumstances:

a. if its labeling is false or misleading in any particular,

b. if it is offered for sale under the name of another food,

c. if it is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" and immediately thereafter the name of the food imitated,

d. if its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading,

e. unless it bears a label showing:

(1) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor, and

(2) an accurate statement of the quantity of the product in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count. Provided, reasonable variations may be permitted, and exemptions as to small packages or articles not in packages or other containers may be established, by regulations prescribed by the Board;

f. if any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act to appear on the label or other labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use,

g. if it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by regulations of the Board unless:

(1) it conforms to such definition and standard, and

(2) its label bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard and, insofar as may be required by such regulations, the common names of optional ingredients, other than spices, flavoring, and coloring, present in such food,

h. if it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been prescribed by regulations of the Board, and it falls below the standard of fill of container applicable thereto, unless its label bears, in such manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement that it falls below such standard,

i. if it is not subject to the provisions of subparagraph g unless its label bears:

(1) the common or usual name of the food, if any there be, and

(2) in case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient; except that spices, flavorings, and colorings may, when authorized by the Board, be designated as spices, flavorings, and colorings without naming each. Provided, that to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this division is impracticable, or results in deception or unfair competition, exemptions shall be established by regulations promulgated by the Board,

j. if it purports to be or is represented for special dietary uses, unless its label bears such information concerning its vitamin, mineral, and other dietary properties as the Board, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, determines to be, and by regulations prescribes as, necessary in order fully to inform purchasers as to its value for such uses,

k. if it bears or contains any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical preservative, unless it bears labeling stating that fact; provided, that, to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this subparagraph is impracticable, exemptions shall be established by regulations promulgated by the Board, or

l. if it fails to bear on its containers, as the Board may by regulations prescribe, the official inspection legend, such other information as the Board may require in such regulations to assure that it will not have false or misleading labeling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the article in a wholesome condition;

14. "Official certificate" means any certificate prescribed by regulation of the Board for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

15. "Official device" means any device prescribed or authorized by the Board for use in applying any official mark;

16. "Official inspection legend" means any symbol prescribed by regulation of the Board showing that an article was inspected for wholesomeness in accordance with the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

17. "Official mark" means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulation of the Board to identify the status of any article or rabbit pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

18. "Official plant" or "official establishment" means one or more buildings or parts thereof, comprising a single plant in which the facilities and methods of operation therein have been approved by the Commissioner as suitable and adequate for operation under inspection service;

19. "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit;

20. "Pesticide chemical", "food additive", "color additive", and "raw agricultural commodity" shall have the same meanings for purposes of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act as such term is defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act;

21. "Processed" means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed;

22. "Rabbit" means any domesticated rabbit, whether live or dead;

23. "Rabbit product" means any rabbit carcass, or part thereof; or any product which is made wholly or in part from any rabbit carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain rabbit ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the animal food industry, and which are exempted by the Board from definition as a rabbit product under such conditions as the Board may prescribe to assure that the rabbit ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as rabbit products;

24. "Rabbit products broker" means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling rabbit products on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or an as employee of another person; and

25. "Renderer" means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of rabbits.

Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 6-280.3

Laws 1989, HB 1370, c. 170, § 3, emerg. eff. 7/1/1989.