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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 15.18.09.03" title_num="15" subtitle_num="18" chapter_num="09" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“AAFCO” means the Association of American Feed Control Officials.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“All life stages” means gestation/lactation, growth and adult maintenance life stages.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Family” means a group of products that are nutritionally adequate for any or all life stages based on nutritional similarity to a lead product, which has been successfully test-fed according to an AAFCO feeding protocol or protocols.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Immediate Container.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“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.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Immediate container” does not include containers used as shipping containers.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“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.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Principal display panel” means the part of a label on the pet food or specialty pet food that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under normal and customary conditions of display for retail sale.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Pet” means dog or cat.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Pet food” means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by dogs or cats.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary's designee.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Specialty pet” means any domesticated pet normally maintained in a cage or tank, such as, but not limited to, gerbils, hamsters, canaries, psittacine birds, mynahs, finches, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes and turtles.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“Specialty pet food” means any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by specialty pets.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>“Raw milk” means any milk or milk product, exclusive of any USDA licensed biologics, from any species other than humans, that has not been pasteurized in accordance with processes recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>