Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

When used in this act:
(a) The term "rendering establishment" means a place of business that
deals in rendering material of animal origin and processes it into finished
products in such a way that risk, damage, or nuisance to animal or public
health is avoided. Any person who receives from any other person the body of
any dead animal for the purposes of obtaining the hide, skin, grease, meat,
bones, or parts thereof from such animal for further processing to a finished
form as described in paragraph (e) of this section is deemed to be engaged in
the business of disposing and rendering of the bodies of dead animals or parts
thereof.
(b) The term "rendering material" means and includes any dead animal not
slaughtered as food for animals or man, or if slaughtered for food, becomes
unsuitable for such use, and includes all parts of dead animals and all
inedible by-products of animals slaughtered or processed as food.
(c) The term "animal" means any member of the animal kingdom such as
fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, etc.
(d) The term "4-D animals" means dead, dying, disabled, or diseased
animals.
(e) The term "finished products" means any product or material processed
or manufactured from rendering material or from 4-D animals by a rendering
establishment or establishment processing 4-D animals such as bone meal, blood
meal, meat meal, tankage, feather meal, tallow, etc., or fresh frozen,
partially cooked, or cooked or canned pet, fur animal, or other animal feed.
(f) The term "establishments processing 4-D animals" means a place of
business that processes the carcasses or any part of carcasses of 4-D animals
to be used as feed for dogs, cats, fur-bearing or other animals.
(g) The term "inspector" means a state employee trained and assigned to
inspect rendering plants and establishments processing 4-D animals.
(h) The term "department" means the state department of agriculture.
(i) The term "laboratory tests" means tests conducted as deemed necessary
by the department to ensure that the finished product meets required
specifications for quality and safety (to include protein analysis,
contaminating agents of disease, etc.); such laboratory tests to be performed
in laboratories approved as provided in paragraph (h) of this section and on
samples of finished products collected by the inspector.

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