As used in the Homemade Food Act:
A. "department" means the department of environment; provided that when a class A county and a home rule municipality that have established a combined local health department pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 to 11-1-7 NMSA 1978] for the purpose of local health regulation, "department" means the combined local health department;
B. "homemade food item" means a food item or non-alcoholic beverage that is produced at the private farm, ranch or residence of a processor, including homemade food items that are packaged at the processor's private farm, ranch or residence;
C. "label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article;
D. "not time and temperature control" refers to food items that do not require time and temperature control to ensure safety;
E. "person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation and association;
F. "processor" means a person who produces a homemade food item;
G. "seller" means a person who sells a not-time-and-temperature-control homemade food item to a consumer;
H. "time and temperature control" means a control requirement for certain foods to ensure safety and limit pathogenic microorganism growth; and
I. "to produce" means to prepare a homemade food item by baking, cooking, cutting, dehydrating, drying, fermenting, growing, mixing, preserving, raising or other process designated by the environmental improvement board by rule.
History: Laws 2021, ch. 98, § 2.
Effective dates. — Laws 2021, ch. 98, § 9 made Laws 2021, ch. 98, § 2 effective July 1, 2021.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes