N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 217: Definitions

§ 217. Definitions. (a) The term "food salvager" as used in this

article, means a person engaged in the business of reconditioning,

labeling, relabeling, packing, repacking, sorting, cleaning, culling, or

by other means salvaging food or food products, single service food

containers and utensils, soda straws, paper napkins or any product of a

similar nature that may have become damaged, contaminated, adulterated

or misbranded as a result of fire, flood, transit wreck, accident or

other cause, or by water, smoke, chemicals, or any other adulterating

agents. The term food salvager shall not include a person who collects

donated farm salvage from lands owned, occupied or leased by such person

with the intent to donate such farm salvage to a charitable

not-for-profit organization provided that such salvage is in fact so

donated. A person who manufactures animal feed or an animal feed

ingredient from food products in a facility registered pursuant to

section one hundred twenty-nine of this chapter shall not be considered

a food salvager based on such activity.

(b) "Donated farm salvage" shall mean an agricultural crop that is

unharvested, surplus or unmarketable but otherwise nutritious and

edible.