Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 1 - The Public Health Service

• meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Secretary under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See 21 USC 601
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his delegate. See 21 USC 601
• States: as used in this chapter , shall be held to include the District of Columbia. See 42 USC 27