P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 851
For the purposes of the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the application thereof the following definitions shall govern:
(a) Federal regulations. — The regulations promulgated under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as they appear in the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended.
(b) Flour. — Flour of any kind or description made from the wheat kernel and conforming to the definitions and standards contained in the federal regulations, but shall exclude whole wheat flour made from the entire kernel, and containing the same in full, without removal of any of the natural components thereof.
(c) Enriched flour. — Flour to which vitamins and other nutritional ingredients essential to good feeding have been added, in conformity with the definitions and identity standards of enriched flour or enriched bromated flour, or enriched self-rising flour, as the case may be, contained in federal regulations.
(d) White bread. — Any oven bread of a white color and known and sold usually as such.
(e) Secretary of Health. — The Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico or his legal representatives.
(f) Person. — Any natural or [juridical] person, firm, corporation, association, or other organization engaged in the manufacture or sale of bread or any other product manufactured in whole or in part with flour for industrial or commercial purposes.
(g) Dry food [pastas]. — Include macaroni, spaghetti, noodle and other products known as Italian-type food [pastas], in their various forms, sizes and appearances, and in whose processing durum or semolina is used; but do not include [pastas] which have been canned or frozen.
History —May 12, 1948, No. 183, p. 474, § 1; May 18, 1959, No. 12, p. 65, §§ 2, 3.