2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 13, Chapters 536 - 644
ORS Chapter 619
619.010 Definitions for ORS 619.010 to 619.026 and 619.036 to 619.066.

As used in ORS 619.010 to 619.026 and 619.036 to 619.066:

(1) Adulterated, misbranded and similar terms or words have the same meaning and are defined as contained in ORS chapter 616, ORS 632.275 to 632.290, 632.450 to 632.490 and 632.900 to 632.985.

(2) Animal food slaughtering or processing establishment means any establishment as defined in subsection (8) of this section wherein animals are slaughtered or parts thereof prepared, offered for sale, sold or used in any manner as animal food.

(3) Capable of use as human food means any carcass, part of a carcass or meat product of any meat animal, which has not been denatured, or otherwise identified as required by rules prescribed by the department, to deter its use as human food, or which is naturally inedible by humans.

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) Department means the State Department of Agriculture.

(7) Equipment means all machinery, fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, implements and apparatus used in and about an establishment.

(8) Establishment means and includes:

(a) Any building, structure or vehicle 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 of 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.

(9) Federal Meat Inspection Act means the Act so entitled approved March 4, 1907, (34 Stat. 1260), as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act (81 Stat. 584).

(10) Food means any article used for food or drink by humans or by dogs and cats.

(11) Label means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container, other than package liner, of any article. A requirement made under authority of ORS 576.024, 619.010 to 619.071, 619.370 and 619.993 that any word, statement or other information appears on a label has not been obeyed unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the retail package of such article, or unless such word, statement or information is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.

(12) Labeling means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying such article.

(13) Meat animal means any vertebrate animal, except fish and aquatic mammals, not otherwise prohibited by law for sale for human consumption.

(14) 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.

(15) Meat by-product means any edible part, other than meat, derived from one or more meat animals.

(16) Official mark means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the department to identify the status of any article or animal.

(17) Person means any individual, partnership, association, incorporated or unincorporated business organization.

(18) Poultry means chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and all other domesticated fowls or birds.

(19) Prepared means ground, seasoned, canned, cooked, salted, frozen, smoked, cured, pickled, packed, boned, dried, cut up, wrapped or otherwise manufactured or processed.

(20) Unwholesome includes all meat or meat products which are diseased, contaminated, including drug or chemical residue, putrid, unsound, unhealthful or unfit for food. [Amended by 1957 c.104 2; 1959 c.565 2; 1973 c.174 4; 1993 c.162 2; 2001 c.104 243]