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. 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; andI. '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. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2021, ch. 98, § 9 made Laws 2021, ch. 98, § 2 effective July 1, 2021.
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