Section 17.20.338 - Definitions In AS 17.20.332 - 17.20.338,
(1) "agricultural fair" means a fair, the major focus of which is displays, exhibitions, demonstrations, contests, or promotions of agricultural concern to the region in which the fair is located;(2) "commercial food establishment" means the premises where an activity related to the display, packaging, preparation, processing, sale, salvaging, service, storage, transportation, or vending of food for human consumption that is not exempt under AS 17.20.332 - 17.20.338 occurs; "commercial food establishment" does not include a kitchen in a private dwelling, or a kitchen in a vessel used solely as a private dwelling, where homemade food is prepared only for personal consumption;(3) "controlled substance" has the meaning given in AS 11.71.900;(4) "farmers' market" means a common facility or area where several vendors may gather on a regular and recurring basis to sell fresh fruits and vegetables, locally grown farm products, and other agricultural products and items directly to buyers;(5) "game meat" means the flesh and organs of animals that are not classified as meat in 9 C.F.R. 301.2 or as poultry in 9 C.F.R. 381.1(b);(6) "homemade food" means a food or drink that is prepared or processed in (A) a producer's private home kitchen; or(B) a private or commercial kitchen leased to a producer;(7) "meat" means the flesh, muscles, organs, tissues, skin, sinew, nerves, blood vessels, and bones of cattle, sheep, swine, equine, or goats;(8) "molluscan shellfish" means all edible species of oyster, clam, mussel, and scallop, whether shucked or in the shell, fresh or frozen, and in whole or in part; "molluscan shellfish" does not include the shucked scallop adductor muscle;(9) "personal consumption" means the use or ingestion of food by a buyer, an employee of the buyer, or a nonpaying guest of the buyer of homemade food;(10) "potentially hazardous homemade food" means food or drink that requires time or temperature control for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation;(11) "producer" means a person who grows, harvests, prepares, processes, or makes and packages meat or homemade food on the person's owned or leased property;(12) "seafood" includes saltwater fish, freshwater fish, amphibians, crustaceans, molluscan shellfish, any other species of aquatic animal intended for human consumption, and parts or byproducts of any species of aquatic animal intended for human consumption; "seafood" does not include aquatic plants, birds, or mammals.Added by SLA 2024, ch. 34,sec. 7, eff. 7/1/2024.