24:11A-3. Definitions

As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

a. "Flour" includes and shall be limited to the foods commonly known in the milling and baking industries as (1) white flour, also known as wheat flour or plain flour; (2) bromated flour; (3) self-rising flour, also known as self-rising white flour or self-rising wheat flour, and (4) phosphated flour, also known as phosphated white flour or phosphated wheat flour, but excludes whole wheat flour and also excludes special flours not used for bread, roll, bun, or biscuit baking, such as specialty cake, pancake and pastry flours.

b. "White bread" means any bread made with flour, whether baked in a pan or on a hearth or screen, which is commonly known or usually represented and sold as white bread, including Vienna bread, French bread and Italian bread.

c. "Rolls" means plain white rolls and buns of the semibread dough type, namely: soft rolls, such as hamburger rolls; hot dog rolls; Parker House rolls; and hard rolls, such as Vienna rolls; Kaiser rolls; but shall not include yeast-raised sweet rolls or sweet buns made with fillings or coatings, such as cinnamon rolls or buns and butterfly rolls.

d. "Person" means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, or any group of persons, whether incorporated or not, engaged in the commercial manufacture, mixing, compounding, or sale of flour, or in the commercial manufacture, baking, sale, or serving of white bread or rolls, with or without other foods, and any institution supported wholly or partly by public funds or tax exemption.

e. "Department" means the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey or any agency which may succeed to its functions, powers and duties.

L.1946, c. 86, p. 296, s. 3.