2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs
Section 21a-27 - (Formerly Sec. 19-183a). Definitions.

For purposes of sections 21a-27 to 21a-30, inclusive:

(1) “Flour” means any (A) flour, white flour, wheat flour, plain flour, (B) bromated flour, (C) self-rising flour, self-rising white flour, self-rising wheat flour, and (D) phosphated flour, phosphated white flour and phosphated wheat flour, but excludes whole wheat flour and also excludes special flours not used for bread, rolls, bun or biscuit baking, such as specialty cake, pancake and pastry flours.

(2) “White bread” means any bread, whether baked in a pan or in a hearth or screen which is commonly known or usually represented and sold as white bread, including, but not restricted to, Vienna bread, French bread and Italian bread.

(3) “Rolls” means plain white rolls and buns of the semi-bread-dough type, such as soft rolls, hamburger, hot dog and other soft rolls and hard rolls, such as Vienna or Kaiser rolls, but shall not include yeast-raised sweet rolls or sweet buns made with fillings or coatings such as cinnamon rolls or buns and butterfly rolls.

(4) “Corn meal” means that product formed by grinding and sifting corn but does not include that product unbolted, stone ground and unsifted.

(5) “Corn grits” means the food prepared by grinding and sifting corn with removal of bran and germ.

(6) “Rice” means all types of milled rice, parboiled rice, converted rice, precooked rice and broken rice.

(7) “Macaroni” means macaroni or macaroni products as defined in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 139, as amended.

(8) “Commissioner” means the state Commissioner of Consumer Protection.

(1972, P.A. 72, S. 1; P.A. 73-377, S. 1; P.A. 80-31; P.A. 81-472, S. 48, 159; P.A. 84-546, S. 63, 173; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 73-377 redefined “corn meal” to specifically exclude meal “stone ground by water power and unsifted”, defined “macaroni” in new Subsec. (g) and redesignated former Subsec. (g) as Subsec. (h); P.A. 80-31 redefined “corn meal” excluding meal “unbolted, stone ground and unsifted” rather than meal “stone ground by water power and unsifted”; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; Sec. 19-183a transferred to Sec. 21a-27 in 1983 and alphabetic Subdiv. indicators replaced with numeric Subdiv. indicators and numeric Subpara. indicators revised accordingly for consistency with general use elsewhere in general statutes; P.A. 84-546 made technical correction in Subdiv. (7); June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.