Cal. Code Regs. tit. 17 § 19005 : Public Health — State Department of Health Services — Sanitation (Environmental) — FOODS AND DRUGS —DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS — PROCESSED PET FOOD REGULATIONS — Definitions

(a) "Complete food" means a nutritionally adequate pet food compounded by a specific formula to be fed as the sole ration and capable of maintaining life and/or promoting normal reproduction in healthy pets without any additional substance being consumed except water, based upon the recommendations of recognized authority in the field of animal nutrition.
(b) "Balanced food" means a pet food having all known required nutrients in a proper amount and proportion based upon the recommendations of recognized authority in the field of animal nutrition for a given set of physiological animal requirements.
(c) "Edible" as used in this article is to be construed as food fit to be eaten by dogs, cats, or other domestic animals.
(d) "Meat" means the clean, wholesome flesh derived from slaughtered mammals and is limited to that part of the striated muscle which is skeletal or that 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 skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the flesh. The term "meat" when applied to the corresponding portions of mammals other than cattle, swine, sheep and goats shall be used in qualified form, for example, "horsemeat."
(e) "Meat by-products" is the non-rendered, clean, wholesome parts of the carcass of slaughtered mammals such as lungs, spleens, kidneys, brains, liver, stomach, bone, blood, and intestines free of their contents. It does not include skin, horns, teeth and hoofs. The term "meat by-products" when applied to the corresponding portions of mammals other than cattle, swine, sheep and goats shall be used in qualified form, as, for example, "horsemeat by-products."
(f) "Poultry" means the eviscerated carcass of slaughtered poultry, exclusive of the head, feet and feathers.
(g) "Poultry parts" means the clean, wholesome parts of dressed poultry characterized by large portions of bone such as necks, backs, and wings exclusive of feet, heads, viscera and feathers.
(h) "Poultry by-products" means the non-rendered, clean parts of carcasses of slaughtered poultry such as heads, feet, and viscera free from fecal content and foreign matter, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice.
(i) "Giblet" means the edible heart, liver, and gizzard of poultry.
(j) "Fish" means the fish and/or any part of fish used as a pet food ingredient with or without removal of entrails, head, tail and fins, except as provided in paragraph (k) of this section.
(k) "Fish by-products" means the heads, fins, tail ends, bones, skin and viscera of fish.

( l "Fish meal" means the dried ground whole fish or fish cuttings, either or both, with or without extraction of part of the oil.

(m) The common names and definitions of other ingredients used in the processing of pet foods shall be those recognized in the Official Publication of Feed Control by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Incorporated and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 17, § 19005

Note: Authority cited: Sections 208 and 27040, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 27040, Health and Safety Code.

1. Amendment filed 9-27-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 40).