[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR60.119]

[Page 169]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER I--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE \1\ (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, 
       MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 60_COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING FOR FISH AND SHELLFISH--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 60.119  Processed food item.

    Processed food item means a retail item derived from fish or 
shellfish that has undergone specific processing resulting in a change 
in the character of the covered commodity, or that has been combined 
with at least one other covered commodity or other substantive food 
component (e.g., breading, tomato sauce), except that the addition of a 
component (such as water, salt, or sugar) that enhances or represents a 
further step in the preparation of the product for consumption, would 
not in itself result in a processed food item. Specific processing that 
results in a change in the character of the covered commodity includes 
cooking (e.g., frying, broiling, grilling, boiling, steaming, baking, 
roasting), curing (e.g., salt curing, sugar curing, drying), smoking 
(hot or cold), and restructuring (e.g., emulsifying and extruding, 
compressing into blocks and cutting into portions). Examples of items 
excluded include fish sticks, surimi, mussels in tomato sauce, seafood 
medley, coconut shrimp, soups, stews, and chowders, sauces, pates, 
salmon that has been smoked, marinated fish fillets, canned tuna, canned 
sardines, canned salmon, crab salad, shrimp cocktail, gefilte fish, 
sushi, and breaded shrimp.