LD 2687
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21.__Inspector.__"Inspector" means an employee or official of
the State or an employee or official of the Federal Government or
of any other governmental entity of this State, authorized by the
commissioner to perform inspection functions under this chapter
under an agreement between the commissioner and the governmental
entity.

 
22.__Label.__"Label" means a display of written, printed or
graphic matter upon a product or the immediate container, not
including package liners, of a product.

 
23.__Labeling.__"Labeling" means all labels and other written,
printed or graphic matter:

 
A.__On a product or its container or wrapper; or

 
B.__Accompanying the product.

 
24.__Licensed establishment.__"Licensed establishment" means a
person required to hold a license under section 2514.

 
25.__Livestock.__"Livestock" means cattle, domesticated deer,
sheep, swine, goats, domestic rabbits, horses, mules, other
equines or other designated animals, whether live or dead.

 
26.__Livestock product.__"Livestock product" means a carcass
or part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of any livestock.

 
27.__Meat.__"Meat" means the part of the muscle of cattle,
domesticated deer, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, other
equines or other designated animals that is skeletal or that is
found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart or esophagus, with or
without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of
bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels that normally
accompany the muscle tissue but does not include the muscle found
in the lips, snout or ears.

 
28.__Meat food product or meat product. "Meat food product" or
"meat product" means a product useable as human food that is made
wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of a carcass of
cattle, domesticated deer, sheep, swine, domestic rabbits or
goats, excepting products that are exempted from definition as a
meat food product by the commissioner under conditions that the
commissioner may prescribe to ensure that the meat or other
portions of carcass contained in products are unadulterated and
that products are not represented as meat food products.__This
term, as applied to food products of equines or other designated
animals, has a meaning comparable to that provided in this
subsection with respect to cattle, domesticated deer, sheep,
swine, domestic rabbits and goats.


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