189.1 - DEFINITIONS.
189.1 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this subtitle, excluding chapters 203, 203C,
203D, 207, and 208, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Article" includes food, commercial feed, agricultural
seed, commercial fertilizer, drug, insecticide, fungicide, paint,
linseed oil, turpentine, and illuminating oil, in the sense in which
they are defined in the various provisions of this subtitle,
excluding chapters 203, 203C, 203D, 207, and 208.
2. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land
stewardship, and if the department is required or authorized to do an
act, the act may be performed by a regular assistant or a duly
authorized agent of the department.
3. "Official laboratory" means a biological, chemical, or
physical laboratory which performs testing or analysis pursuant to
scientific procedures, to the extent the laboratory is recognized by
the department as a reliable indicator of scientific results.
4. "Package" or "container", unless otherwise defined,
includes wrapper, box, carton, case, basket, hamper, can, bottle,
jar, tube, cask, vessel, tub, firkin, keg, jug, barrel, tank, tank
car, and other receptacles of a like nature; and the expression
"offered or exposed for sale or sold in package or wrapped form"
means the offering or exposing for sale, or selling of an article
which is contained in a package or container as defined in this
section.
5. "Pasteurization" or "pasteurized" means the procedure
of processing milk or a milk product, in order to ensure its safety
from contaminants, if the procedure of pasteurization is consistent
with standards adopted by the department pursuant to section 192.102.
6. "Person" includes a corporation, company, firm, society,
or association; and the act, omission, or conduct of any officer,
agent, or other person acting in a representative capacity shall be
imputed to the organization or person represented, and the person
acting in that capacity shall also be liable for violations of this
subtitle, excluding chapters 203, 203C, 203D, 207, and 208.
7. "Rules" includes regulations and orders by the department.
8. "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture.
9. "United States Pharmacopoeia" or "National Formulary"
means the latest revision of these publications official at the time
of a transaction which is in question. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2510-o, 3009-a; SS15, § 4999-a31c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
3029; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189.1]
Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 636; 92 Acts, ch 1163, §44; 94 Acts, ch 1023,
§17; 2003 Acts, ch 69, §24, 25
Referred to in § 196.1