Statute Text
Definitions.
As
used in this chapter:
(1) Custom
processing establishment means a stationary establishment wherein slaughtered
meat animals or meat, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are
prepared for compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are
thereafter returned to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner.
(2) Custom
slaughtering establishment means a mobile or stationary establishment wherein
meat animals, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are slaughtered for
compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are thereafter returned
to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner.
(3) Department
means the State Department of Agriculture.
(4) Equipment
means all machinery, fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, implements and
apparatus used in and about an establishment.
(5) Establishment
means:
(a) Any building,
vehicle or structure in which meat animals are slaughtered for consumption or
meat products are prepared, sold, offered or held for sale.
(b) The ground
upon which such place or business is operated or used and so much ground
adjacent thereto as is also used in carrying on the business of the
establishment. The department may prescribe such additional area or places
which, although they may not be contiguous or adjacent to the above area or
establishment, may be included therein.
(6) Meat animal
means any vertebrate animal, except fish and aquatic mammals, not otherwise
prohibited by law for sale for human consumption.
(7) Meat or meat
product means any edible muscle, except any muscle found in the lips, snout or
ears, of meat animals, which is skeletal or found in the tongue, diaphragm,
heart or esophagus, with or without any accompanying and overlying fat, and any
portion of bone, skin, sinew, nerve or blood vessels normally accompanying the
muscle tissue and not separated from it in the process of dressing or as
otherwise prescribed by the department.
(8) Meat seller
establishment means an establishment wherein meat products are sold, offered
or held for sale, but which are not prepared other than to be ground, seasoned,
salted, frozen, boned, cut up, wrapped or packed.
(9) Nonslaughtering
processing establishment means any building, structure or vehicle wherein the
activities of a slaughterhouse, custom slaughtering establishment or custom
processing establishment or of an animal food slaughtering establishment or
animal food processing establishment under ORS chapter 619 are not performed,
but wherein meat products are prepared.
(10) Poultry
means chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and all other domesticated fowls or
birds.
(11) Prepared
means ground, seasoned, canned, cooked, salted, frozen, smoked, cured, pickled,
packed, boned, dried, cut up, wrapped or otherwise manufactured or processed.
(12) Slaughterhouse
means an establishment wherein meat animals are slaughtered.
(13) Unwholesome
means all meats or meat products that are diseased, contaminated, including
drug or chemical residue, putrid, unsound, unhealthful or unfit for food. [Amended
by 1953 c.692 §6; 1955 c.724 §1; 1959 c.239 §1; 1961 c.164 §1; 1969 c.565 §1;
1973 c.175 §3; 1975 c.304 §1; 1993 c.162 §1; 1995 c.79 §320; 2003 c.14 §360]