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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 2. STANDARDS, LABELING, AND ADULTERATION OF FOOD · Article 6. MEAT, POULTRY, AND DAIRY PROCESSING PLANTS

26-2-200. Definitions.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture.#

  3. (2)

    “Meat” or “meat products” means the carcass or part of any carcass of any animal or fowl or any by-product thereof in any form.#

  4. (3)

    “Meat, poultry, or dairy processing plant” means: any abattoir, slaughterhouse, poultry killing or processing plant, milk depot, milk processing plant, or any other establishment for the killing, storage, dressing, manufacture, preparation, or processing of any animal, fowl, or dairy product or any by-product thereof for human consumption. Such term shall not include cottage food operators as provided for in Code Section 26-2-471.#

  5. (4)

    “Person” means any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons, or combination thereof.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1956, p. 748, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 582, § 3/HB 398, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, added the last sentence in paragraph (3).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, page 50; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.