Section 55.02. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Adulterated" has the meaning given in 9 CFR 301.2 (2) (i).

(1m)  "Ante mortem inspection" means a pre-slaughter inspection of a live food animal.

(2)  "Captive game animals" means bison, white-tailed deer and other animals of a normally wild type that are produced in captivity for slaughter and consumption. "Captive game animals" does not include farm-raised deer, ratites, captive game birds, fish, or animals kept solely for hunting purposes at a hunting preserve.

(3)  "Captive game birds" means birds of a normally wild type, such as pheasants, quail, wild turkeys, migratory wildfowl and exotic birds, that are produced in captivity for slaughter and consumption. "Captive game birds" does not include poultry, ratites, or birds kept solely for hunting purposes in a hunting preserve.

(4)  "Carcass" means all edible parts of a slaughtered animal, including edible viscera.

(4m)  "Cooperative interstate shipment program" means the program under which an establishment licensed and inspected under this chapter and complying with applicable requirements in 9 CFR 321 and 332 , or applicable requirements of 9 CFR 381 , Subparts R and Z, is allowed to distribute and sell in interstate commerce meat or poultry products manufactured bearing the mark of inspection authorized under s. ATCP 55.06 (5) (j) .

(5)  "Custom processing" means processing meat as a custom service for an individual who owns that meat, and who uses all the resulting meat or meat food products for his or her own consumption. An individual's own consumption may include consumption by the individual's immediate family, immediate household, and nonpaying guests. "Custom processing" includes mobile custom processing.

(6)  "Custom slaughter" means slaughtering a food animal as a custom service for an individual who owns that animal, and who uses all the resulting meat or meat food products for his or her own consumption. An individual's own consumption may include consumption by the individual's immediate family, immediate household, and nonpaying guests. "Custom slaughter" includes mobile custom slaughter.

(7)  "Department" means the state of Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

(8)  "Diseased animal" means an animal that has been diagnosed with a disease not known to be cured, or that has exhibited signs or symptoms of a disease not known to be cured. "Diseased animal" does not include an otherwise healthy animal that suffers only from injuries such as fractures, cuts, or bruises.

(9)  "Domesticated food animal" means any of the following:

(a) Cattle.

(b) Swine.

(c) Poultry.

(d) Sheep.

(e) Goats.

(f) Farm-raised deer.

(g) Horses, mules and other equines.

(10)  "Edible" means edible by humans.

(11)  "Farm-raised deer" has the meaning given in s. 95.001 (1) (ag) , Stats. "Farm-raised deer" does not include captive white-tailed deer.

(12)  "Food animals" means domesticated food animals, ratites, captive game animals, and captive game birds.

(13)  "Individual" means a natural person.

(14)  "Livestock" means domesticated food animals other than poultry.

(15)  "Meat" means the edible muscle and other edible parts of a food animal, including edible skeletal muscle, edible organs, and edible muscle found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart, or esophagus. "Meat" includes edible fat, bone, skin, sinew, nerve, or blood vessel that normally accompanies meat and is not ordinarily removed in processing.

(16)  "Meat broker" means a person who, without taking title to meat or meat food products, arranges the purchase or sale of meat or meat food products.

(17)  "Meat distributor" means a person who distributes meat or meat food products at wholesale.

(18)  "Meat establishment" means a plant or fixed premises used to slaughter food animals for human consumption, or to process meat or meat food products for human consumption.

(19)  "Meat food product" means any edible product derived in whole or in substantial and definite part from meat.

(20)  "Mobile custom processing" means custom processing meat for another person at that person's premises.

(21)  "Mobile custom slaughter" means custom slaughtering a food animal for another person at that person's premises.

(22)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative association, limited liability company, trust, or other organization or entity.

(23)  "Post mortem inspection" means the post-slaughter inspection of a slaughtered food animal's carcass.

(24)  "Poultry" means domesticated fowl commonly used for human food, including domesticated chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, and squab. "Poultry" does not include captive game birds.

(25)  "Process" means to cut, grind, manufacture, compound, intermix, or prepare meat or meat food products.

(26)  "Ratite" means a member of the group of flightless birds that includes the ostrich, emu, cassowary, kiwi, and rhea .

(27)  "Sanitize" means to destroy pathogens and other microorganisms, to the maximum practicable extent, by applying an approved sanitizer or sanitizing method to food contact surfaces of equipment, utensils, or food packages that are otherwise clean.

(28)  "Sell" means to transfer ownership for a price, or to advertise, offer, hold, or distribute for sale.

(29)  "Unwholesome" has the meaning given in s. 97.42 (1) (m) , Stats.

(30)  "Veterinarian" has the meaning given in s. 97.42 (1) (n) , Stats.

(31)  "Wholesome" has the meaning given in s. 97.42 (1) (o) , Stats.

(32)  "Wild game" means edible wild animals other than fish. "Wild game" does not include any of the following:

(a) Captive game animals or captive game birds.

(b) Farm-raised deer.

History: CR 01-042 : cr. Register March 2002 No. 555 , eff. 4-1-02; correction in (11) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register October 2004 No. 586 ; EmR 1213: emerg. cr. (4m), am. (24), eff. 9-13-12; CR 12-040 : cr. (4m), am. (24) Register May 2013 No. 689 , eff. 6-1-13; CR 14-024 : renum. (1) to (1m), cr. (1) Register May 2015 No. 713 , eff. 6-1-15; correction in (2) and (11) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register May 2015 No. 713 .

Note

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