{"data":{"id":"us-nm/25-12-2","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"25-12-2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in the Homemade Food Act:\nA. \"department\" means the department of environment; provided that when a class A county and a home rule municipality that have established a combined local health department pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 to 11-1-7 NMSA 1978] for the purpose of local health regulation, \"department\" means the combined local health department;\nB. \"homemade food item\" means a food item or non-alcoholic beverage that is produced at the private farm, ranch or residence of a processor, including homemade food items that are packaged at the processor's private farm, ranch or residence;\nC. \"label\" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article;\nD. \"not time and temperature control\" refers to food items that do not require time and temperature control to ensure safety;\nE. \"person\" includes an individual, partnership, corporation and association;\nF. \"processor\" means a person who produces a homemade food item;\nG. \"seller\" means a person who sells a not-time-and-temperature-control homemade food item to a consumer;\nH. \"time and temperature control\" means a control requirement for certain foods to ensure safety and limit pathogenic microorganism growth; and\nI. \"to produce\" means to prepare a homemade food item by baking, cooking, cutting, dehydrating, drying, fermenting, growing, mixing, preserving, raising or other process designated by the environmental improvement board by rule.","path":["Chapter 25 - Food","ARTICLE 12 Homemade Food"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18525/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"b30cb31a8d6df2ae243f2834691f2168d29053a3c4098e537cf59592c2e106f2","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/25-12-1","next":"us-nm/25-12-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}