Section 164.20. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Department" means the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

(2)  "Eligible capital investment" includes all expenses incurred in the acquisition, construction or improvement of buildings or facilities; and the purchase price of depreciable personal property or equipment.

(3)  "Livestock" means domesticated food animals other than fish and wild game animals.

(4)  "Meat" means the edible muscle and other edible parts of animals used as food for human consumption including the dressed edible muscle and other edible parts of cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, and other food animals, except fish and wild game animals.

(5)  "Meat processing" has the meaning given in s. 71.07 (3r) (a) 2. , Stats.

(6)  "Meat product" means a value-added, saleable, and edible stand-alone product resulting from processing meat or another meat product by a USDA or state-inspected facility. Meat products do not include sandwiches, spreads, appetizers, soups, salads, dinners, pizzas, pasties, or any other product that uses meat in any manner other than as the predominant ingredient. Meat products also do not include products that are processed through custom or mobile processing or slaughtering.

(7)  "Process" means to cut, grind, manufacture, compound, intermix, or prepare meat or meat products for human consumption.

CR 10-007 : cr. Register August 2010 No. 656 , eff. 9-1-10; correction in (1) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. , Stats., Register October 2011 No. 670 .

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Section 71.07 (3r) (a) 2. of the Statutes reads as follows: " `Meat processing' means processing livestock into meat products or processing meat products for sale commercially." Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1