For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Advertise" means to present a commercial message in any medium including but not limited to print, radio, television, sign, display, label, tag, or articulation.
2. "Agricultural commodity" includes but is not limited to livestock, crops, fiber, or food, such as vegetables, nuts, seeds, honey, eggs, or milk existing in an unprocessed state, which is produced on a farm and marketed for human or livestock consumption.
3. "Agricultural product" means an agricultural commodity or an agricultural processed product.
4. "Agricultural processed product" means an agricultural commodity that has been processed.
5. "Board" means the organic standards board established in section 190C.2.
6. "Certified" means any farm, wild crop harvesting, or handling operation that is verified annually, through an on- site inspection and comprehensive review of the operation by a certifying agent under 21 U.S.C. § 2115 or by the department's certification program, as producing and handling agricultural products in accordance with this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
7. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land stewardship.
8. "Farm" means a site where the agricultural commodities are produced.
9. "Food" means an agricultural product or an agricultural product ingredient which is used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption.
10. "Handler" means a person engaged in the business of handling agricultural products, including but not limited to distributors, wholesalers, brokers, and repackers. "Handler" does not include a person selling agricultural products to consumers on a retail basis, including a food service establishment as defined in section 137B.2*, retail grocery, meat market, or bakery, if the person does not process the agricultural product.
11. "Label" means a commercial message in a printed medium which is affixed by any method to a product or to a receptacle including a container or package.
12. "Livestock" means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species; ostriches, rheas, or emus; farm deer as defined in section 481A.1; or poultry.
13. "Organic agricultural product" means food or fiber that is one of the following:
a. If the food or fiber is an agricultural commodity, it is produced and handled according to the requirements of this chapter.
b. If the food or fiber is an agricultural processed product, it is produced, handled, and processed according to the requirements of this chapter.
14. "Processing" means turning an agricultural commodity into an agricultural processed product by physical or chemical modification, including but not limited to canning, freezing, drying, dehydrating, cooking, pressing, powdering, packaging, repacking, baking, heating, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, cutting, fermenting, eviscerating, preserving, jarring, brewing, or slaughtering.
15. "Processor" means a person who processes an agricultural commodity.
16. "Produce" means to grow, raise, collect, or harvest an agricultural commodity.
17. "Producer" means a person who produces an agricultural commodity.
18. "Regional organic association" means a corporation organized under chapter 504 or 504A which has certifying members, elects its own officers and directors, and is independent from the department.
19. "Retailer" means a person, other than an operator of a food service establishment*, who is engaged in the business of selling food at retail to the ultimate customer.
20. "Sale" or "sell" means a commercial transfer or offer for sale and distribution in any manner.
21. "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture.
22. "System of organic farming" means a system that is designed to produce agricultural products by the use of methods and substances that maintain the integrity of organic agricultural products until they reach the consumer. This includes a management system which promotes and enhances agroecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity. This is accomplished by using cultural, biological, and mechanical methods, as opposed to using synthetic materials, to fulfill any specific function within the system.
23. "System of organic handling" means a system that is designed to handle agricultural products without the use of synthetic additives, aids, or ingredients that are used during processing, packaging, or storing agricultural products in accordance with this chapter and by the use of methods and substances that maintain the integrity of organic agricultural products until they reach the consumer.
98 Acts, ch 1205, §1, 20
*Section 137B.2, defining "food service establishment" was repealed by 98 Acts, ch 1162, § 29; see section 137F.1; corrective legislation is pending
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