Sec.21a-100-2. General definitions

(a) "Commissioner" as used in these regulations means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.

(b) "Food Establishment" means an establishment in which food is stored, processed, prepared, offered for sale, or sold directly to the consumer.

(c) "Inspector" means an employee or official of the Department of Consumer Protection authorized by the Commissioner.

(d) "Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, swine, or sheep 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 of overlying fat and portions of skin, bone, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout, or ears.

(e) "Meat food product" means any product capable of use as food which is made wholly or part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Commissioner under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products.

(f) "Operator" means any person who (i) alone or jointly or severally with others owns a food establishment, or (ii) has care, charge or control of a food establishment as agent or manager for the owner or as an independent contractor.

(Effective June 22, 1990)