Section 428:2 Definitions. - New Hampshire Statutes

As much as possible, all of the definitions in regard to procedures and rules for the buying, selling and handling of meat products, as provided under RSA 427:2, shall apply to the buying, selling and handling of poultry products under this subdivision. In addition, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
   I. The term ""Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act'' means the act so entitled, approved August 28, 1957 (71 Stat. 441), as amended by the Wholesome Poultry Products Act (82 Stat. 791).
   II. The term ""container'' or ""package'' includes any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic, or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover.
   III. The term ""poultry'' means any domesticated bird, whether alive or dead.
   IV. The term ""shipping container'' means any container used or intended for use in packaging the product packed in an immediate container.
   V. The term ""immediate container'' includes any consumer package, or any other container in which poultry products, not consumer packaged, are packed.
   VI. The term ""official establishment'' means any establishment, as determined by the commissioner, at which inspection of slaughter of poultry or the processing of poultry products is maintained under the authority of this subdivision.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.