[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 29]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR432.2]

[Page 249]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 432_MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS POINT SOURCE CATEGORY
--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 432.2  General definitions.

    As used in this part:
    (a) The general definitions and abbreviations in 40 CFR part 401 
shall apply.
    (b) ELWK (equivalent live weight killed) means the total weight of 
animals slaughtered at locations other than the slaughterhouse or 
packinghouse that processes the animals hides, blood, viscera or other 
renderable materials.
    (c) Fecal coliform means the bacterial count, as determined by 
approved methods of analysis for Parameter 1 in Table 1A in 40 CFR 
136.3.
    (d) Finished product means the final fresh or frozen products 
resulting from the further processing as defined below of either whole 
or cut-up meat or poultry carcasses.
    (e) Further processing means operations that utilize whole carcasses 
or cut-up meat or poultry products for the production of fresh or frozen 
products, and may include the following types of processing: Cutting and 
deboning, cooking, seasoning, smoking, canning, grinding, chopping, 
dicing, forming, breading, breaking, trimming, skinning, tenderizing, 
marinating, curing, pickling, extruding and/or linking.
    (f) LWK (live weight killed) means the total weight of animals 
slaughtered.
    (g) Meat means products derived from the slaughter and processing of 
cattle, calves, hogs, sheep and any meat that is not listed under the 
definition of poultry below.
    (h) Packinghouse means a plant that both slaughters animals and 
subsequently processes carcasses into cured, smoked, canned or other 
prepared meat products.
    (i) Poultry means products derived from the slaughter and processing 
of broilers, other young chickens, mature chickens, hens, turkeys, 
capons, geese, ducks, small game fowl such as quail or pheasants, and 
small game such as rabbits.
    (j) Raw material means the basic input materials to a renderer 
composed of animal and poultry trimmings, bones, blood, meat scraps, 
dead animals, feathers and related usable by-products.
    (k) Slaughterhouse means a facility that slaughters animals and has 
as its main product fresh meat as whole, half or quarter carcasses or 
small meat cuts.
    (l) The approved methods of analysis for the following six 
parameters are found in Table 1B in 40 CFR 136.3. The nitrate/nitrite 
part of total nitrogen may also be measured by EPA Method 300.0 
(incorporated by reference, see Sec. 432.5).
    (1) Ammonia (as N) means ammonia measured as nitrogen.
    (2) BOD5 means 5-day biochemical oxygen demand.
    (3) O&G means total recoverable oil and grease.
    (4) O&G (as HEM) means total recoverable oil and grease measured as 
n-hexane extractable material.
    (5) Total Nitrogen means the total of nitrate/nitrite and total 
Kjeldahl nitrogen.
    (6) TSS means total suspended solids.