{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-190a.2","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 190A.2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n1. “Department” means the department of agriculture and land stewardship.\n2. “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.\n3. “Food commodity” means any of the following:\na. A food animal that is to be slaughtered or harvested and that is to be processed into a food product.\nb. 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.\nc. Sap, whole nuts, or whole produce, including vegetables or fruit, that has been harvested and that is to be processed into a food product.\n4. “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.\n5. “Fund” means the farm-to-school fund created in section 190A.5.\n6. “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.\n7. “Program” means the farm-to-school program created in section 190A.6.\n8. “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.\n9. “School district” means a school district as described in chapter 274.","path":["Title V - AGRICULTURE (Ch. 159 - 215A)","Chapter 190A - FARM-TO-SCHOOL ACT"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/190A.2.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:05Z","sha256":"559ea0b46a309479ec1c7c69f179a4cc338ed9fe61681b27dba431d97d3d6233","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-190a.1","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-190a.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}