97.01(6)

(6) “Food” means:

97.01(9)

(9) “Labeling” means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the article.

97.01(6)(a)

(a) Articles used for food or drink by persons.

97.01(6)(b)

(b) Chewing gum.

97.01

97.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless inconsistent with context:

97.01(4)

(4) “Department” means the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

97.01(10)

(10)

97.01(1)

(1) “Butter” means the clean, nonrancid product made by gathering in any manner the fat of fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass, which also contains a small portion of the other milk constituents, with or without salt or added coloring matter, and contains not less than 80% of milk fat. Renovated or process butter is the product made by melting butter and reworking, without the addition or use of chemicals or any substances except milk, cream or salt, and contains not more than 16% of water and at least 80% of milk fat.

97.01(2)

(2) “Color additive” includes as colors black, white and intermediate grays and means a material which is a dye, pigment, or other substance made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice, or extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity from a vegetable, animal, mineral or other source and which, when added or applied to a food or any part thereof, is capable, alone or through reaction with other substance, of imparting color thereto; except that such term does not include any material which has been or hereafter is exempted under the federal act.

97.01(3)

(3) “Contaminated with filth” applies to any food not securely protected from dust, dirt and, as far as may be necessary by all reasonable means, from all foreign or injurious contaminations.

97.01(4m)

(4m) “Distressed food” means food, or packages or containers of food, that may have been damaged, or rendered unsafe or unsuitable for sale or use as food while being transported, stored, handled or sold or the food the label of which has been lost, defaced or obliterated.

97.01(5)

(5) “Federal act” means the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, as amended (Title 21 USC 301 et seq.) or the federal wholesome meat act, as amended (Title 21 USC 71 et seq.), or the federal poultry products inspection act, as amended (Title 21 USC 451 et seq.), or the federal fair packaging and labeling act (Title 15 USC 1451 et seq.) which may be applicable.

97.01(6)(c)

(c) Articles used for components of matters specified in pars. (a) and (b).

97.01(7)

(7) “Food additive” means any substance, the intended use of which results or may be reasonably expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food, (including any substance intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting or holding food; and including any source of radiation intended for any such use), if such substance is not generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety, as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures (or, in the case of a substance used in a food prior to January 1, 1958, through either scientific procedures or experience based on common use in food) to be safe under the conditions of its intended use; except that such term does not include a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity, or a pesticide chemical to the extent that it is intended for use or is used in the production, storage, or transportation of any raw agricultural commodity, or a color additive, or any substance used in accordance with a sanction or approval granted prior to the enactment of the food additives amendment of 1958, pursuant to the federal act.

97.01(8)

(8) “Label” means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article. A requirement made under this chapter that any word, statement, or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper if any, of the retail package of such article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. “Immediate container” does not include package liners.

97.01(10)(a)

(a) “Milk” means the whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows. Milk shall contain not less than 3% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% of milk solids not fat. Milk may be standardized by the addition or removal of cream or by the addition of skim milk. When so standardized milk sold in final package form shall contain not less than 3.25% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% [8.7%] of milk solids not fat.

97.01(10)(b)

(b) “Lowfat milk” means milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to produce a food having a milk fat content of either 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% or 2% and a milk solids not fat content of not less than 10%.

97.01(10)(c)

(c) “Skim milk” means milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to reduce its milk fat content to less than 0.5% and which has a milk solids not fat content of not less than 9%.

97.01(11)

(11) “Nonfat dry milk” means the product resulting from the removal of fat and water from milk, and contains the lactose, milk proteins and milk minerals in the same relative proportions as in the fresh milk from which made. It contains not over 5% by weight of moisture. The fat content is not over 1 1/2% by weight unless otherwise indicated.

97.01(12)

(12) “Package” means any container or wrapper in which any food is enclosed for use in the delivery or display of that food to retail purchasers, but does not include:

97.01(12)(a)

(a) Shipping containers or wrappings used solely for the transportation of any food in bulk or in quantity to manufacturers, packers or processors, or to wholesale or retail distributors.

97.01(12)(b)

(b) Shipping containers or outer wrappings used by retailers to ship or deliver any food to retail customers if such containers and wrappings bear no printed matter pertaining to any particular commodity.

97.01(13)

(13) “Pesticide chemical” means any substance which, alone, in chemical combination, or in formulation with one or more other substances is a “pesticide” within the meaning of § 94.67 (25) and which is used in the production, storage or transportation of raw agricultural commodities.

97.01(14)

(14) “Raw agricultural commodity” means any food in its raw or natural state, including all fruits that are washed, colored or otherwise treated in their unpeeled natural form prior to marketing.

97.01(14m)

(14m) “Salvaging distressed food” means reconditioning or preparing distressed food for sale or use as food, including cleaning, culling, sorting, scouring, labeling, packaging, processing or treating the food.

97.01(15)

(15) “Sell”, “sale” or “sold” includes delivering, shipping, consigning, exchanging, offering or exposing for sale, or having in possession with intent to sell.

97.01(16)

(16) “Whey cream” means that portion of whey rich in milk fat which is separated from whey by centrifugal force, is fresh and clean and contains not less than 30% of milk fat.