2005 Idaho Code - 22-1102 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  22
                         AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
                                  CHAPTER 11
                            ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTS
    22-1102.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
    (1)  "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or the
director's designee.
    (2)  "Food products" shall include all agricultural, horticultural,
viticultural and vegetable products of the soil, apiary and apiary products,
poultry and poultry products, livestock and livestock products, milk and dairy
products and aquaculture products.
    (3)  "Handler" means any person or organization who processes, packages,
resells, transports or stores organic food products or nonorganic food
products.
    (4)  "Livestock" means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, ratites, domestic
cervidae and bison.
    (5)  "Organic certification seal" means the design approved by the
director and which when imprinted or affixed on labels, packages or products,
or used in advertising in any manner, shall signify that the standards and
rules developed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and all
other conditions of the provisions of this chapter have been met.
    (6)  "Organic food product" means any food product that is marketed using
the term organic, or any derivative of the term organic in its labeling or
advertising. Organic foods are those processed, packaged, transported and
stored to retain maximum nutritional value, without the use of artificial
preservatives, coloring or other additives, irradiation, or synthetic
pesticides.
    (7)  "Organically grown food products" means food products which are
produced without the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides,
or growth regulators for a period not less than thirty-six (36) months prior
to harvest. Organically grown food products are produced under the standards
and rules established in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and by
other qualified agencies.
    (8)  "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation,
or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not.
    (9)  "Producer" means any person or organization who:
    (a)  Grows, raises or produces a food product; and
    (b)  Sells the food product as, or offers it for sale as, an organic food.
    (10) "Vendor" means any person who sells organic food products to the
consumer or another vendor.