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2018 Georgia Code 26-2-200 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 26 FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS

Section 2. Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food, 26-2-1 through 26-2-441.

ARTICLE 6 MEAT, POULTRY, AND DAIRY PROCESSING PLANTS

26-2-200. Definitions.

As used in this article, the term:

  1. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture.
  2. "Meat" or "meat products" means the carcass or part of any carcass of any animal or fowl or any by-product thereof in any form.
  3. "Meat, poultry, or dairy processing plant" means: any abattoir, slaughterhouse, poultry killing or processing plant, milk depot, milk processing plant, or any other establishment for the killing, storage, dressing, manufacture, preparation, or processing of any animal, fowl, or dairy product or any by-product thereof for human consumption.
  4. "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons, or combination thereof.

(Ga. L. 1956, p. 748, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Code 1910, § 2119 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Slaughter houses are subject to sanitary regulations. Schoen Bros. v. Pylant, 162 Ga. 565, 134 S.E. 304, 46 A.L.R. 1480 (1926) (decided under former Code 1910, § 2119, subdivision (3)).

Wildlife club which processed meat and game for the club's members was a "meat, poultry, or dairy processing plant" within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 26-2-200(3). Aaron v. Irvin, 259 Ga. 353, 381 S.E.2d 35 (1989).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Definition of private processing plants which must have licenses.

- License is necessary for the operation of a meat, poultry, or dairy processing plant in this state where livestock is grown or fed out, slaughtered and sold for human consumption by the owner. 1957 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 1.

Includes private dairies.

- Places manufacturing dairy products such as frozen desserts, which include ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, milk sherbet, and similar products containing milk or milk by-products are subject to licensure. 1957 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 1.

State-owned ice cream parlor not "dairy" requiring license.

- State Park Authority, created as a body corporate and politic and deemed to be an instrumentality of the state and a public corporation, is not required to obtain a dairy processing plant license to operate an ice cream parlor. 1958-59 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 5.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Seller's duty to ascertain at his peril that articles of food conform to food regulations, 28 A.L.R. 1385.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 26-2-200 From Courtlistener.com

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Aaron v. Irvin

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1989-07-13

Citation: 259 Ga. 353, 381 S.E.2d 35

Snippet: poultry, or dairy processing plant” in OCGA § 26-2-200 (3) does not include the hunter’s kitchen, which