{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-196.450","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 196.450","heading":"Definitions.","body":"When used in sections 196.450 to 196.515, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(1) \"Chill room\" means a room or space in a locker plant, artificially cooled, provided for the temporary holding or storage of food prior to its processing or freezing for storage;\n(2) \"Cutting or processing room\" means a separate room or space in a locker plant in which food products are prepared for quick or sharp freezing;\n(3) \"Department\" means department of agriculture of the state of Missouri;\n(4) \"Director\" means the director of the department of agriculture of the state of Missouri;\n(5) \"Food\" means all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment by man, whether simple, mixed or compound, and any substance used as a constituent in the manufacture thereof;\n(6) \"Locker\" means the individual sections or compartments of a capacity of not to exceed fifty cubic feet, in the locker room of a locker plant;\n(7) \"Locker plant\" means a location or establishment in which space in individual lockers is rented for the storage of food;\n(8) \"Locker room\" means that space or room in a locker plant which contains individual lockers or compartments which are for rent for the storage of frozen food;\n(9) \"Operator\" means any person, copartnership, firm or corporation operating or maintaining a locker plant;\n(10) \"Quick or sharp freeze\" means the freezing of food in a room in which the temperature is zero or lower;\n(11) \"Quick or sharp freezing room\" means that space in a locker plant in which food is quick or sharp frozen prior to storage in lockers;\n(12) \"Quick or sharp frozen\" means the condition of food which has been thoroughly frozen in a quick or sharp freezing room;\n(13) \"Temperature\" means degrees shown on Fahrenheit thermometer.","path":["Title XII - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=196.450","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:26Z","sha256":"1be865f3efd2c63f6088fd1737ac95400d9e8b5f9268aca472984195a565b160","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-196.361","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-196.455"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}