New Orleans City Code § 82-451 Definitions.
Sec. 82-451. - Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Biological product means any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin or analogous product applicable to the prevention, treatment or cure of diseases or injuries of man.
Department of health shall mean that department as set forth in the charter or the parish agency designated to operate on health matters within the parish under Act 1972, No. 253, incorporated as R.S. 46:1751 et seq.
Director means the director of biologic and standards as set forth in the Federal Food and Drug Administration Regulations with the exception of these instances where the director's activities relate to inspections and enforcement of provisions providing for or protecting the health of the donor as set forth in the charter of the city or the director of the department of health, as that officer is defined in the charter of the city or his successor, as may be established under state law.
Establishment includes all locations located in the city.
Label means any written, printed or graphic matter on the container or package or any such matter clearly visible through the immediate carton, receptacle or wrapper.
Location includes all buildings, appurtenances, equipment and animals used, and personnel engaged by a processor within a particular area designated by an address adequate for identification.
Package means the immediate carton, receptacle or wrapper, including all labeling matter therein and thereon, and the contents of the one or more enclosed containers. If no package is used, the container shall be deemed to be the package.
Processing means all steps in the propagation or processing and preparation of products and includes but is not limited to filling, testing, labeling, packaging and storage by the processor. "Processing" also means any legal person or entity engaged in the processing of any biological product extracted from the human body or injected into the human body. Processor of any biological product is prohibited unless the same is for the exclusive use in interstate commerce or if to be utilized in intrastate commerce, that the processor and the processing must first be approved by the director of the department of health.
Products includes biological products and trivalent organic arsenicals.
Purity means relative freedom from extraneous matter in the finished product, whether or not harmful to the recipient or deleterious to the product. "Purity" includes but is not limited to relative freedom from residual moisture or other volatile substances and pyrogenic substances.
Standards means specifications and procedures applicable to an establishment or to the processing or release of products which are prescribed in this article and which are designed to ensure the continued safety, purity and potency of such products.
Sterility means freedom from viable contaminating microorganisms, as determined by the tests prescribed in this chapter.
(Code 1956, § 29-101)