Section Agr 1203.01 - Definitions, Terms, and Exemptions(a) "All life stages" means gestation or lactation, growth, and adult maintenance life stages.(b) "Family" means a group of products, which are nutritionally adequate for any or all life stages based on their nutritional similarity to a lead product, which has been successfully test-fed according to an AAFCO feeding protocol.(c) "Immediate container" means the unit, can, box, tin, bag, or other receptacle or covering in which a pet food or specialty pet food is displayed for sale to retail purchasers, but does not include containers used as shipping containers.(d) "Ingredient statement" means a collective and contiguous listing on the label of the ingredients of which the pet food or specialty pet food is composed.(e) "Pet" means a dog or a cat.(f) "Pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by dogs or cats.(g) "Specialty pet" means any animal normally maintained in a household, such as, but not limited to, rodents, ornamental bird, ornamental fish, reptiles and amphibians, ferrets, hedgehogs, marsupials, and rabbits not kept for meat or fur.(h) "Specialty pet food" means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by specialty pets.(i) "Principal display panel" means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown or examined under normal and customary conditions of display for retail sale.(j) The following products shall be exempt from the definition of pet food or specialty pet food, unless the manufacturer, in its product labeling or advertising, makes any claim that the product is intended for use as an animal food, or that the product provides anything of nutritional value to the animal:N.H. Admin. Code § Agr 1203.01
Derived From Volume XXXVIII Number 10, Filed March 8, 2018, Proposed by #12487, Effective 3/1/2018, Expires 8/28/2018.Amended by Volume XXXIX Number 24, Filed June 13, 2019, Proposed by #12788, Effective 5/23/2019, Expires 5/23/2029.