The following words and terms when used in this Subchapter shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Acceptable" means suitable for the purpose intended and acceptable to the Service.
"Act" means the applicable provisions of the "Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act".
"Animal food manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of rabbits.
"Applicant" means any interested party who requests any inspection service.
"Board" means the State Board of Agriculture.
"Carcass" means any rabbit carcass.
"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.
"Circuit supervisor" means any employee of the Department in charge of rabbit inspection service in a designated geographical area.
"Class" means any subdivision of a product based on essential physical characteristics that differentiate between major groups of the same kind.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture or any other officer or employee of the Department to who there has heretofore been delegated, or to whom there may hereafter be delegated, the authority to act in his or her stead.
"Condition" means any condition, including, but not being limited to, the state of preservation, cleanliness, or soundness, of any product or the processing, handling, or packaging which may affect such product.
"Department" means the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
"Director" means the Director of the Meat Inspection Service, employed by the Board to act for it in matters as prescribed by these rules and regulations for Meat Inspection.
"District Supervisor" or technical supervisor" means the officer in charge of the rabbit inspection service in a circuit consisting of a group of stations within an area.
"Edible product" means any product derived from ready-to-cook domestic rabbits.
"Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" means the act so entitled, approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat.1040), and act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
"Federal Meat Inspection Act" means the act so entitled approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1260) as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act (8 Stat.584).
"Giblets" means the liver from which the bile sac has been removed and the heart from which the pericardium has been removed and the kidneys.
"Holiday" or "legal holiday" shall mean the legal public holidays proclaimed by the Governor of the state of Oklahoma.
"Identify" means to apply official identification to product or to containers thereof.
"Inspection certificate" means a statement, either written or printed, issued by an inspector, pursuant to the regulations relative to the condition and wholesomeness of products.
"Inspection legend" means the inspection mark, and any other mark, or any variations in such marks, approved by the Board and authorized to be affixed to any product, or affixed to or printed on the packaging material of any product, stating that the product was inspected, or indicating the condition of the product, or for the purpose of maintaining the identity of products inspected under these regulations, including, but not limited to that set forth in 35:37-9-21.
"Inspector" means any person who is duly qualified and certified as an agent of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
"Interested party" means any person financially interested in a transaction involving any inspection.
"Intrastate commerce" means commerce within this state.
"Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including package liners, or any article.
"Laboratory" means:
(A) a room or building equipped for scientific experimentation or research.
(B) a place where drugs and chemicals are manufactured.
(C) a place for practice, observation or testing.
"Official certificate" means any certificate prescribed by regulation of the Board for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act.
"Official device" means any device prescribed or authorized by the Board for use in applying any official mark.
"Official inspection legend" means any symbol prescribed by regulation of the Board showing that an article was inspected for wholesomeness in accordance with the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act.
"Official mark" means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulation of the Board to identify the status of any article or rabbit pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act.
"Official plant" or "official establishment" means one or more buildings or parts thereof, comprising a single plant in which the facilities and methods of operation therein have been approved by the Commissioner as suitable and adequate for operation under inspection service.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit.
"Pesticide chemical" , "food additive" , "color additive" , and "raw agricultural commodity" means these terms shall have the same meanings for purposes of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act as such term is defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
"Potable water" means water that has been approved by the State Health Department or the State Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry as safe for drinking and suitable for food processing.
"Processed" means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut-up, or otherwise manufactured, processed, or repackaged.
"Rabbit" means any domesticated rabbit, whether live or dead.
"Rabbit inspection service" means the personnel who are engaged in the administration, application, and direction of rabbit inspection programs and services pursuant to the regulations.
"Rabbit product" means any rabbit carcass, or part thereof; or any product which is made wholly or in part from any rabbit carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain rabbit ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the animal food industry, and which are exempted by the Board from definition as a rabbit product under such conditions as the Board may prescribe to assure that the rabbit ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as rabbit products.
"Rabbit products broker" means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling rabbit products on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person.
"Ready-to-cook domestic rabbit" means any rabbit that has been slaughtered for human food, from which the head, blood, skin, feet, and inedible viscera have been removed, that is ready to cook without need of further processing. Ready-to-cook rabbit also means any cut-up or disjointed portion of rabbit or any edible part thereof, as described in this paragraph.
"Regulations" means regulations promulgated by the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture governing the inspection of rabbits and rabbit products.
"Renderer" means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of rabbits.
"Service" means the rabbit inspection program of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.
Okla. Admin. Code § 35:37-9-1