Iowa Code § 190A.2
Definitions
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Current — January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2012
1. A farm-to-school council is established and made up of seven members representing the following associations or state departments:
a. One member representing the Iowa school nutrition association.
b. One member representing the Iowa association for health, physical education, recreation and dance with expertise in health.
c. One Iowa fruit or vegetable producer.
d. One Iowa organic meat producer.
e. The director of the Leopold center or the director’s designee.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Department” means the department of agriculture and land stewardship.
g. The director of the department of education or the director’s designee.
2. The members listed under subsection 1, paragraphs “a” through “d”, shall be selected by the governor without senate confirmation and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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2. “Food animal” means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, ovine, or porcine species; a turkey, chicken, or other type of poultry; a farm deer as defined in section 170.1; a fish or other aquatic organism confined in private waters for human consumption; or a bee as defined in section 160.1A.
3. “Food commodity” means any of the following:
a. A food animal that is to be slaughtered or harvested and that is to be processed into a food product.
b. An item regularly generated by a food animal, including milk, eggs, or honey, that has been collected, and that is to be processed into a food product.
c. Sap, whole nuts, or whole produce, including vegetables or fruit, that has been harvested and that is to be processed into a food product.
4. “Food product” means a perishable or nonperishable product derived from processing a food commodity to be fit for human consumption, including but not limited to cuts of meat, poultry, or fish; shelled aquatic items; pasteurized milk or dairy products; washed shelled eggs; honey; maple syrup; cleaned unshelled or shelled nuts; washed whole produce; and washed and cut produce.
5. “Fund” means the farm-to-school fund created in section 190A.5.
6. “Process” means to prepare a food commodity in a manner that allows it to be sold to consumers as a food product, including by altering the form or identity of the food commodity; trimming, cutting, cleaning, drying, freezing, filtering, sorting, or shelling the food commodity; or packaging the food commodity.
7. “Program” means the farm-to-school program created in section 190A.6.
8. “School” means a public school or nonpublic school, as those terms are defined in section 280.2, or that portion of a public school or nonpublic school that provides facilities for teaching any grade from kindergarten through grade twelve.
9. “School district” means a school district as described in chapter 274.
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.