Section 96-G. Definitions

As  used  in  this  article,  unless otherwise
  expressly stated, or unless the  content  or  subject  matter  otherwise
  requires;
    1. "Department" means the department of agriculture and markets.
    2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
    3. "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association.
    4.  "Inspection  legend" means a mark or a statement authorized by the
  provisions of the federal law, on a carcass, meat, meat  by-product,  or
  meat food product indicating the product has been inspected and passed.
    5. "Meat label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter
  authorized  by  the  provisions  of  the  federal  law  on  a  container
  indicating the meat, meat by-products, or meat food  products  contained
  therein have been inspected and passed.
    6. "Meat" means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, swine, sheep,
  goats,  horses and other large domesticated animals which is skeletal or
  which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or  in  the
  esophagus,  with  or  without the accompanying or overlying fat, and the
  portions of bone, skin, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany
  the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process  of
  dressing.  It  does  not  include the muscle found in the lips, snout or
  ears. Any edible part of the carcass which has been manufactured, cured,
  smoked, processed or otherwise treated shall not be considered meat.
    7. "Meat by-product" means any edible part other than meat  which  has
  been  derived  from  cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large
  domesticated animals. This term shall apply only to  those  parts  which
  have  not  been  manufactured,  cured,  smoked,  processed  or otherwise
  treated.
    8. "Meat food product" means any product capable of use as human  food
  which  is  made  wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the
  carcass of any animal, excepting products which contain  meat  or  other
  portions  of  such  carcasses  only  in a relatively small proportion or
  historically have not been considered by consumers as  products  of  the
  meat  food  industry,  and  which are exempted from definition as a meat
  food product by  the  commissioner  under  such  conditions  as  he  may
  prescribe  to  assure  that the meat or other portions of such carcasses
  contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are
  not represented as meat food products.
    9.  "Custom  slaughterer"  means  a  person,  firm,   corporation   or
  association who or which operates a place or establishment where animals
  are delivered by the owner thereof for slaughter exclusively for use, in
  the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his
  non-paying  guests and employees, provided, that such custom slaughterer
  does not engage in the business of  buying  or  selling  any  carcasses,
  parts of carcasses, meat or meat products of any animal.
    10.  "Custom slaughtered meat" means meat from animals which have been
  slaughtered by a custom slaughterer for the owner exclusively  for  use,
  in  the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and
  his non-paying guests and employees.
    11. "Farm dressed meat" means meat from animals slaughtered by a  bona
  fide  farmer  who, as an incident of such farm operation, slaughters his
  own domestic animals on his own premises exclusively  for  use,  in  his
  household, by him and members of his household and his non-paying guests
  and employees.
    12.  "Edible"  and "for human consumption" shall apply to any carcass,
  or part or product of a carcass, of any animal, unless it  is  denatured
  or  otherwise  identified  as  required by regulations prescribed by the
  commissioner to deter its use as human food, or is naturally inedible by
  humans.

    13. "Animal" means cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other large
  domesticated mammals.
    14.  "Carcass"  means  all  parts,  including viscera of a slaughtered
  animal, that are capable of being used for human food.
    15. "Federal inspection" means the meat inspection maintained  by  the
  United States department of agriculture.
    16.  "Federal  law" means the federal meat inspection act and all acts
  amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
    17. "Game or wild game" means  any  deer  or  big  game,  or  portions
  thereof, as defined in section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation
  law, taken by lawful hunting.