190C.1 - DEFINITIONS.
190C.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Agricultural product" means any agricultural commodity or
product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product
derived from livestock, that is marketed in this state for human or
livestock consumption.
2. "Council" means the organic advisory council established
pursuant to section 190C.2.
3. "Crop" means a plant or part of a plant intended to be
marketed as an agricultural product or fed to livestock.
4. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land
stewardship.
5. "Handler" means a person engaged in the business of
handling agricultural products, including producers who handle crops
or livestock of their own production, except such term shall not
include final retailers of agricultural products that do not process
agricultural products.
6. "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic
material on the immediate container of an agricultural product or any
such material affixed to any agricultural product or affixed to a
bulk container containing an agricultural product, except for package
liners or a display of written, printed, or graphic material which
contains only information about the weight of the product.
7. "Livestock" means any cattle, sheep, goats, swine,
poultry, or equine animals used for food or in the production of
food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based consumer products;
wild or domesticated game; or other nonplant life, except such term
shall not include aquatic animals or bees for the production of food,
fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based consumer products.
8. "National organic program" means the program administered
by the United States department of agriculture pursuant to 7 C.F.R.
pt. 205, which implements the federal Organic Food Production Act of
1990, 7 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq.
9. "Organic" means a labeling term that refers to an
agricultural product produced in accordance with this chapter.
10. "Organic agricultural product" means an agricultural
product that is certified or otherwise qualifies as organic in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter as they existed on and
after May 20, 1998.
11. "Processing" means cooling, baking, curing, heating,
drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting,
slaughtering, cutting, fermenting, distilling, eviscerating,
preserving, dehydrating, freezing, chilling, or otherwise
manufacturing, and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or
otherwise enclosing in a food container.
12. "Processor" means a person engaged in the business of
processing.
13. "Producer" means a person who engages in the business of
growing or producing food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based
consumer products.
14. "Regional organic association" means a corporation
authorized pursuant to section 190C.6.
15. "Retailer" means a person who sells agricultural products
on a retail basis. "Retailer" includes a food establishment as
defined in section 137F.1. "Retailer" also includes a
restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, grocery store, or any retail outlet
with an in-store restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, salad bar, or
other eat-in or carry-out service of processed or prepared raw and
ready-to-eat food.
16. "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture who is the
director of the department of agriculture and land stewardship. Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1205, §1, 20; 99 Acts, ch 96, §19; 2003 Acts, ch 104,
§1, 21; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §43; 2003 Acts, ch 149, §13, 23
Referred to in § 190C.1A, 200.3