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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 4802. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter:
(1) The term "Board" means the National Pork Board established
under section 4808 of this title.
(2) The term "consumer information" means an activity intended
to broaden the understanding of sound nutritional attributes of
pork or pork products, including the role of pork or pork
products in a balanced, healthy diet.
(3) The term "Delegate Body" means the National Pork Producers
Delegate Body established under section 4806 of this title.
(4) The term "imported" means entered, or withdrawn from a
warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United
States.
(5) The term "importer" means a person who imports porcine
animals, pork, or pork products into the United States.
(6) The term "order" means a pork and pork products promotion,
research, and consumer information order issued under section
4803 of this title.
(7) The term "person" means an individual, group of
individuals, partnership, corporation, association, organization,
cooperative, or other entity.
(8) The term "porcine animal" means a swine raised for -
(A) feeder pigs;
(B) seedstock; or
(C) slaughter.
(9) The term "pork" means the flesh of a porcine animal.
(10) The term "pork product" means a product produced or
processed in whole or in part from pork.
(11) The term "producer" means a person who produces porcine
animals in the United States for sale in commerce.
(12) The term "promotion" means an action, including paid
advertising, taken to present a favorable image for porcine
animals, pork, or pork products to the public with the intent of
improving the competitive position and stimulating sales of
porcine animals, pork, or pork products.
(13) The term "research" means -
(A) research designed to advance, expand, or improve the
image, desirability, nutritional value, usage, marketability,
production, or quality of porcine animals, pork, or pork
products; or
(B) dissemination to a person of the results of such
research.
(14) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(15) The term "State" means each of the 50 States.
(16) The term "State association" means -
(A) the single organization of pork producers in a State that
is -
(i) organized under the laws of the State in which such
association operates; and
(ii) recognized by the chief executive officer of such
State as representing the pork producers of such State; or
(B) if such organization does not exist on January 1, 1986,
an organization that represents not fewer than 50 pork
producers who market annually, in the aggregate, not less than
10 percent of the volume (measured in pounds) of porcine
animals marketed in such State.
(17) The term "to market" means to sell or to otherwise dispose
of a porcine animal, pork, or pork product in commerce.
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