(1) “Federal inspection” means the meat and poultry inspection service conducted by the Meat Inspection Division and the Poultry Inspection Division of the Consumer and Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

(2) “State inspection” means the meat and poultry inspection service conducted by the Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(3) “Municipal inspection” means the meat and poultry inspection performed by a political subdivision.

(4) “Establishment” means all premises where animals or poultry are slaughtered or otherwise prepared for food purposes, meat and poultry canneries, sausage making, smoking or curing operations and similar places except those places occupied and used for such purposes in the preparation of food for consumption in their own households. It shall not include retail stores if the only processing operation performed in such retail stores is that of preparing for sale the meat and poultry products which have been inspected under the provisions of this act, except that the secretary may require inspection in retail establishments when he determines that the character or quantity of processing is such that inspection is necessary to protect the public health. The term “retail” refers to sale to the ultimate consumer.

(5) “Animals and livestock” mean cattle, calves, sheep, swine and goats.

(6) “Poultry” means domesticated fowl and rabbits. Fowl includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and other domesticated birds used for human food.

(7) “Carcass” means all parts including viscera of slaughtered animals or poultry that are capable of being used for human food.

(9) The term “meat food product” means any article of food, or any article intended for or capable of use as human food, which is derived or prepared, in whole or in part, from any portion of any livestock, unless exempted by the secretary upon his determination that the article (i) contains only a minimal amount of meat and is not represented as a meat food product or (ii) is for medicinal purposes and is advertised only to the medical profession.

(10) The term “poultry product” means any poultry which has been slaughtered for human food from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, and viscera have been removed in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the secretary, any edible part of poultry, or any human food product consisting of any edible part of poultry separately or in combination with other ingredients. However, any such human food product may be exempted from this definition by the secretary upon his determination that the product (i) contains only a minimal amount of poultry and is not represented as a poultry product or (ii) is used for medicinal purposes and is advertised only to the medical profession.

(11) “Wholesome” means sound, healthful, clean and otherwise fit for human food.

(12) “Unwholesome” means (i) unsound, diseased, unclean, injurious to health or otherwise unfit for human food; (ii) consisting in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance; (iii) processed, prepared, packaged or held under unsanitary conditions whereby any animal or poultry carcass or parts thereof, or any meat, meat food product, meat by-product may have become contaminated or whereby such product has been rendered injurious to health; (iv) produced in whole or in part from animals or poultry which show clinical evidence of disease or from animals or poultry which have died otherwise than by slaughter.

(13) “Adulterated” means (i) produced in whole or in part in such manner that products contain any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render them injurious to health; (ii) if any poisonous or deleterious substance is contained unless such substance is permitted in production or unavoidable under processing practices as may be determined by rules and regulations hereunder prescribed by the Department of Agriculture, or other provisions of law limiting or tolerating the quantity of such added substance or in such product, but any quantity of such added substance which exceeds the limits so established, shall be considered as adulteration and as unwholesome; (iii) if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part therefor, and; (iv) if damage or inferior quality has been concealed in any manner.

(14) “Department” means the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

(15) “Secretary” means the Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture or his duly appointed representative who will be responsible for the administering of this act.

(16) “Inspector” means any employe of the department authorized by the secretary to inspect animals and poultry or meat and poultry products. No employe shall be designated as an inspector until he has received training in the inspection of animals and poultry unless in the opinion of the secretary the employe is qualified without the training. Any required training shall be given prior to and periodically during the appointment as an inspector.

(17) “Pennsylvania Inspected and Passed” means that the meat, meat food product, meat by-product, and poultry product so stamped and identified has been inspected and passed under the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations pertaining thereto and at the time of inspection and identification was found to be sound, clean, wholesome and free from disease or adulteration.

(18) “Pennsylvania Retained” means that the meat, meat food product, meat by-product or poultry product so identified is held for further clinical examination by a veterinary inspector to determine its disposal. The term “Pennsylvania Retained” may also be applied to equipment or areas in an establishment which are in an unsatisfactory condition of sanitation or repair, thereby prohibiting use of the retained item until such condition is corrected. When any such equipment or area is in a condition of sanitation or repair that can not be remedied, it shall be defined as “Pennsylvania Rejected” and thereby prohibited from further use indefinitely.

(19) “Pennsylvania Inspected and Condemned” means that the meat, meat food product, meat by-product or poultry product so identified and marked is unhealthful, diseased, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food and shall be disposed of in the manner prescribed by the department.

(20) “Pennsylvania Suspect” means that the animals or poultry so marked and identified are suspected of being affected with a disease or condition which may require its condemnation in whole or in part when slaughtered and subject to further examination by a veterinary inspector to determine its disposal.

(21) A “producer” means a person primarily engaged in raising livestock or poultry and who is not ordinarily engaged in the business of buying, exchanging and selling animals and poultry.

(22) “Political subdivision” includes local health units.