Rule 40-7-4-.01 - Definitions(1) "Fresh crab" means a live, raw, or frozen raw crab which shows no decomposition.(2) "Crab meat" means the picked meat of the blue crab, callinectes sapidus, which has been thermally processed and removed from its shell by hand picking or other mechanical means approved by the department.(3) "Cooked crab" means the blue crab in whole or in part which has been thermally processed with the shell intact either whole or in part.(4) "Food contact surface" means the parts of equipment, including auxiliary equipment, which may be in contact with the food being processed, or which may drain into the portion of equipment with which food is in contact.(5) "Overage" means the crab meat that is in excess of an even number of pounds delivered by the picker to the packing table.(6) "Sanitize" means the effective bactericidal treatment of clean surfaces of equipment and utensils by a process which has been approved by the department and is effective in destroying vegetative cells of pathogens bacteria and in substantially reducing other micro-organisms. Such treatment shall not adversely affect the product and shall be safe for the consumer.(7) "Operating season" means the season of the year during which fresh crabs are received into the plant for further processing.(8) "Nuisance" means any condition that exist which is annoying, unpleasant, or unwanted.(9) "Pasteurization, Pasteurized, and similar terms" shall mean the process of heating every particle of crab meat in an approved hermetically sealed container to a temperature of at least 185 degrees F(85 degrees C) and holding it continuously at or above this temperature for at least one minute in properly operated equipment approved by the department. The term also includes any other process which has been found equally effective by the department.(10) "Department" means Georgia Department of Agriculture, Consumer Protection Division, therefore having responsibility for enforcing these regulations.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-7-4-.01
Ga. L. 1950, p. 195 as amended; O.C.G.A. Sec. 26.2-1 et seq.
Original Rule entitled "Definitions" F. on Jun. 30, 1965.Repealed: New Rule, same title, adopted. F. Apr. 30, 1996; eff. May 20, 1996.