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32.6.701    DEFINITIONS

In this subchapter:

(1) "Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, goats or other animals, which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and portions of the bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue, and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. It does not include the muscles found in the lips, snout or ears.

(2) "Meat by-product" means any edible part, other than meat, which has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine or goats.

(3) "Meat depot" means an establishment where meat, meat food products, and/or meat by-products, intended for human consumption, are stored.

(4) "Meat food product" means any article of food, or any article intended for or capable of being used as human food which is derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part from any portion of any cattle, sheep, swine or goats, except such articles as organotherapeutic substances, meat juice, meat extract, and the like, which are only for medicinal purposes, and are advertised only to the medical profession.

(5) "Meat packing house" means an establishment where meat, meat food products, and meat by-products, intended for human consumption, are prepared and/or processed.

(6) "Mobile slaughter facility" is defined in 81-9-217 , MCA.

(7) "Product" means any part or all of meat, meat by-product, and/or meat food product.

(8) "Slaughterhouse" means an establishment where animals are butchered for human consumption.

History: 81-2-102, 81-9-220, MCA; IMP, 81-2-102, 81-9-217, 81-9-220, MCA; Eff. 12/31/72; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 1283, Eff. 5/19/06.

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