Section 217. Definitions  


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  • (a)  The  term  "food  salvager"  as used in this
      article, means a person  engaged  in  the  business  of  reconditioning,
      labeling, relabeling, packing, repacking, sorting, cleaning, culling, or
      by  other  means  salvaging  food  or food products, single service food
      containers and utensils, soda straws, paper napkins or any product of  a
      similar  nature  that may have become damaged, contaminated, adulterated
      or misbranded as a result of fire, flood,  transit  wreck,  accident  or
      other  cause,  or  by water, smoke, chemicals, or any other adulterating
      agents. The term food salvager shall not include a person  who  collects
      donated farm salvage from lands owned, occupied or leased by such person
      with   the   intent   to  donate  such  farm  salvage  to  a  charitable
      not-for-profit organization provided that such salvage  is  in  fact  so
      donated.  A  person  who  manufactures  animal  feed  or  an animal feed
      ingredient from food products  in  a  facility  registered  pursuant  to
      section  one hundred twenty-nine of this chapter shall not be considered
      a food salvager based on such activity.
        (b) "Donated farm salvage" shall mean an  agricultural  crop  that  is
      unharvested,  surplus  or  unmarketable  but  otherwise  nutritious  and
      edible.