2020 Wyoming Statutes
Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals
Chapter 49 - Marketing Homemade Foods
Section 11-49-102 - Definitions.

11-49-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Delivery" means the transfer of a product resulting from a transaction between a producer and an informed end consumer. The delivery may occur by the producer's designated agent at a farm, ranch, farmers market, home, office or any location agreed to between the producer and the informed end consumer;

(ii) "Farmers market" means as defined in W.S. 35-7-110(a)(xxviii);

(iii) "Home consumption" means consumed within a private home, or food from a private home that is only consumed by family members, employees or nonpaying guests;

(iv) "Homemade" means food that is prepared or processed in a private home kitchen, that is not licensed, inspected or regulated;

(v) "Informed end consumer" means a person who is the last person to purchase any product, who does not resell the product and who has been informed that the product is not licensed, regulated or inspected;

(vi) "Producer" means any person who grows, harvests, prepares or processes any food or drink products on the person's owned or leased property, does not produce more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) individual food or drink products annually and does not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00) in gross revenue annually from the food and drink products;

(vii) "Transaction" means the exchange of buying and selling;

(viii) "Process" means operations a producer performs in the making or treatment of the producer's food or drink products;

(ix) "Animal share" means an ownership interest in an animal or herd of animals created by a written contract between an informed end consumer and a farmer or rancher that includes a bill of sale to the consumer for an ownership interest in the animal or herd and a boarding provision under which the consumer boards the animal or herd with the farmer or rancher for care and processing and the consumer is entitled to receive a share of meat from the animal or herd;

(x) "Non-potentially hazardous food" means food that does not require time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation. "Non-potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, jams, uncut fruits and vegetables, pickled vegetables, hard candies, fudge, nut mixes, granola, dry soup mixes excluding meat based soup mixes, coffee beans, popcorn and baked goods that do not include dairy or meat frosting or filling or other potentially hazardous frosting or filling;

(xi) "Potentially hazardous food" means food that requires time or temperature control for safety including limiting pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation. "Potentially hazardous food" includes, but is not limited to, foods requiring refrigeration, dairy products, quiches, pizzas, frozen doughs, meat and cooked vegetables and beans;

(xii) "This act" means W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-103.