SECTIONS 9201-9206 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 9201-9206

9201. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the construction of this chapter.

9202. "Animal" includes, but is not limited to, any domesticated
fowl or nonhuman mammal and any wild fowl, bird, or mammal that is
reduced to captivity.

9203. "Biologics" means the following products which are used for
the diagnosis and detection of, and for the prevention or treatment
of, disease in animals other than man: serum, blood, vaccines, live
vaccine, killed vaccine, tissue vaccine, autogenous vaccine, live
virus, killed virus, live bacterial culture, killed bacterial
culture, bacterin, hormone, tissue extract, gland extract, gland
preparation, insulin, and similar products made from human or animal
tissues or micro-organisms.

9203. "Biologics" means all viruses, serums, antibody products,
toxins (excluding substances that are selectively toxic to
microorganisms, for example, antibiotics), or analogous products at
any stage of production, shipment, distribution, or sale, which are
intended for use in the treatment of animals and which act primarily
through the direct stimulation, supplementation, enhancement, or
modulation of the immune system or immune response.

9204. "Production" means collection of biologic material,
preparation, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of
biologics.

9204. "Blood and blood component products" means whole blood
collected directly from a donor animal for transfusion or the blood
components for transfusion including packed red blood cells,
platelet-rich plasma, platelet concentrates, fresh plasma, fresh
frozen plasma, frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, and cryosupernatant.
Antibody products like hyperimmune serums are considered "biologics"
and are excluded from this definition of blood and blood component
products.

9205. "Serial" means the total quantity of a biological product in
final composition which has been mixed in a single container and
identified by number.

9205. "Commercial blood bank for animals" means an establishment
that produces animal blood or blood component products to market and
sell for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of
injury or disease in animals.

9206. "Production" means collection of blood or the preparation,
testing, processing, storage, or distribution of blood or blood
component products for the purpose of transfusion.