Rule 40-16-1-.01 - DefinitionsThe following words or terms shall have the meaning set forth herein when used in these rules and regulations:
(a) The term "Department" shall mean the Department of Agriculture.(b) The term "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of Agriculture.(c) The term "Biologicals" shall be defined as medical preparations made from living organisms and their products, including serums, vaccines, antigens and antitoxins which are for use on poultry and animals, excluding humans.(d) The term "Adulterant" shall mean a substance use as an addition to another substance for sophistication or adulteration.(e) The term "Adulteration" shall mean an addition of an impure, cheap, or unnecessary ingredient to cheat, cheapen, or falsify a preparation.(f) The term "Contaminant" shall mean something that causes contamination, such as a foreign organism developing accidentally in a pure culture.(g) The term "Contamination" shall mean the soiling or making inferior by contact or mixing.(h) "Dealer in Biologicals" shall include every producer, manufacturer, distributor, or sales outlet selling, offering for sale, exposing for sale, distributing, or storing biologicals as herein defined, and every such dealer shall register with and obtain a permit from the Department of Agriculture prior to engaging in such activities. Provided, however, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any department of Federal or State Government or any County Board of Health, or any joint City-County Board of Health, or any licensed graduate veterinarian, whose primary use of biologicals is in his practice, or any retail establishment which purchases pre-packaged biologicals not under its private label from a producer, manufacturer, distributor, or sales outlet registered under this Act for sale to the general public only. Retail establishments selling biologicals, the producer, manufacturer, and distributor neither of which are registered under this Act must obtain a separate permit for biologicals obtained from each nonregistered source.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-16-1-.01
O.C.G.A. Secs. 4-7 and 4-9.
Original Rule entitled "Definitions" was filed and effective on June 30, 1965.Amended: Rule repealed and a new Rule of the same title adopted. Filed May 18, 1966; effective June 6, 1966.Amended: Authority changed. Filed May 2, 1984; effective May 22, 1984.