1234                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 618

(b)   The term "inspector" means an employee or official of this
State authorized by the Board to inspect livestock or carcasses,
parts thereof, or meat food products under the authority of this sub-
title.

(c)   The term "person" means any individual, partnership, cor-
poration, association, or any other business entity.

(d)   The term "meat broker" means any person engaged in the
business of buying or selling livestock carcasses, parts thereof, or
meat food products on commission, or otherwise negotiating pur-
chases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as
an employee of another person.

(e)   The term "renderer" means any person engaged in the busi-
business of rendering carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses,
of livestock or poultry, except rendering conducted under inspection
or exemption under this subtitle.

(f)   The term "animal food manufacturer" means any person
engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food
derived wholly or in part from carcasses, or parts or products of the
carcasses, of livestock.

(g)   The term "intrastate commerce" means commerce wholly
within this State.

(h) The term "livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses,
mules, or other equines.

(i) The term "carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of any
slaughtered livestock, that are capable of being used for human food.

(j) The term "meat" means the edible part of the muscle of
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which is skeletal or which is found in
the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus, with
or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of
bone, skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany
the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process
of dressing. It does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout or
ears. This term as applied with respect to equines shall have a mean-
ing comparable to that provided in this paragraph with respect to
cattle, sheep, swine and goats.

(k) The term "meat by-products" means any edible part other than
meat which has been derived from one or more cattle, sheep, swine
or goats. This term as applied with respect to equines shall have a
meaning comparable to that provided in this paragraph with
respect to cattle, sheep, swine and goats.

(l) The term "meat food product" means any product capable of
use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or
other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats,
excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such
carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically which
have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food
industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food
product by regulations adopted under this subtitle. This term as
applied with respect to equines shall have a meaning comparable to
that provided in this paragraph with respect to cattle, sheep, swine,
and goats.