2012 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health And Welfare
Subtitle 4 - Food, Drugs, And Cosmetics
Chapter 60 - Meat And Meat Products
Subchapter 2 - -- Arkansas Meat and Meat Products Inspection Act
§ 20-60-203 - Definitions.

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Adulterated" shall apply to any livestock carcass, part thereof, or meat food product under one (1) or more of the following circumstances:

(A) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health. However, if the substance is not an added substance, the article shall not be considered adulterated under this clause if the quantity of the substance does not ordinarily render it injurious to health;

(B) If it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance, unless the substance is permitted in its production or unavoidable under good manufacturing practices as may be determined by rules and regulations prescribed by the director. However, any quantity of added substances exceeding the limit so fixed shall also be deemed to constitute adulteration;

(C) If any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, therefor;

(D) If damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner;

(E) If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom;

(F) If any 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) "Advertisement" means all representations disseminated in any manner or by any means other than by labeling for the purpose of inducing or which are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of meat or meat products;

(3) "Board" means the State Board of Health;

(4) "Container" and "package" include any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or any other receptacle, wrapper, or cover;

(5) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Health of this state, or any person authorized to act in his or her stead;

(6) "Federal Meat Inspection Act" means the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, as amended and extended, and the imported meat provisions of subsections 306 (b) and (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended;

(7) "Immediate container" means any consumer package or any other container in which an article, not consumer packaged, is packed;

(8) "Inspection service" means the official governmental service within the Department of Health of this state designated by the director as having the responsibility for carrying out the provisions of this subchapter;

(9) "Inspector" means an employee or official of this state authorized by the director to inspect livestock or carcasses or parts thereof, or meat food products under the authority of this subchapter;

(10) "Intrastate commerce" means commerce within this state;

(11) "Label" means any written, printed, or graphic material upon the shipping container, if any, or upon the immediate container including, but not limited to, any individual consumer package of an article or accompanying the article;

(12) "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, or horses;

(13) "Meat" means any edible part of the carcass of any livestock;

(14) "Meat food product" means any article of food, or any article intended for or capable of use as human food, which is derived or prepared, in whole or in part, from any portion of any livestock, unless exempted by the director upon his or her determination that the article:

(A) Contains only a minimal amount of meat and is not represented as a meat food product; or

(B) Is for medicinal purposes and is advertised only to the medical profession;

(15) "Official establishment" means any establishment in this state as determined by the director at which inspection of the slaughter of livestock or the processing of livestock or carcasses or parts thereof, or meat food products is maintained under the authority of this subchapter. However, the term "official establishment" as used in this subchapter shall not be construed to mean livestock or meat sold by the producer thereof on his, her, or its own farm or ranch on an occasional basis directly to the consumer and user thereof;

(16) "Official inspection mark" means any symbol, formulated pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the director, stating that an article was inspected and passed;

(17) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other business entity;

(18) "Shipping container" means any container used or intended for use in packaging the article packed in an immediate container;

(19) "Unwholesome" means:

(A) Unsound, injurious to health, containing any biological residue not permitted by rules or regulations prescribed by the director, or otherwise rendered unfit for human food;

(B) Consisting in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance;

(C) Processed, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby any livestock carcass or part thereof or any meat food product may have become contaminated with filth or may have been rendered injurious to health;

(D) Produced in whole or in part from livestock which has died otherwise than by slaughter; or

(E) Packaged in a container composed of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; and

(20) "Wholesome" means sound, healthful, clean, and otherwise fit for human food.