(a) "Brand name" means any word, name, symbol or device, or any combination thereof, identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or manufacturer and distinguishing it from all others.

(b) "Bulk" refers to commercial feed distributed in nonpackaged form and accompanied by an invoice or delivery slip.

(c) "Commercial feed" means all materials distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed for animals, other than man, except: (1) Unmixed or unprocessed whole seeds when such whole or unprocessed seeds are not chemically changed or adulterated; (2) unground hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and raw meat when not mixed with other materials and when not adulterated; (3) individual chemical compounds when not mixed with other materials. The term commercial feed shall include the categories of feed ingredients, customer-formula feeds, pet foods and specialty pet foods.

(d) "Commissioner" refers to the commissioner of agriculture of the State of West Virginia or a duly authorized employee.

(e) "Contract feeder" means a person who, as an independent contractor, feeds commercial feed to animals pursuant to a contract and the commercial feed is supplied, furnished, or provided to the independent contractor and such contractor's remuneration is determined all or in part by feed consumption, mortality, profits, or the amount or quality of the product.

(f) "Customer-formula feed" means a commercial feed which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser.

(g) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, expose for sale, exchange, or barter commercial feed; or to supply, furnish, or provide commercial feed to a contract feeder.

(h) "Distributor" means any person who sells, exposes for sale, offers for sale, exchanges, barters, gives, parcels out, allots, shares, or dispenses a commercial feed.

(i) "Domesticated animal" means any species of animal living and bred in a tame condition.

(j) "Drug" means any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals, other than man; and substances, other than nutritive components, intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body.

(k) "Feed ingredient" means each constituent material making up commercial feed, including individual chemical compounds labeled for use as a feed ingredient.

(l) "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter affixed to the container in which commercial feed is distributed; or affixed to the invoice, delivery slip, or other shipping document which accompanies bulk shipments of commercial feed or customer-formula feed. All such labels shall be legible and in English.

(m) "Labeling" means all written, printed, or graphic matter, or advertising referencing such commercial feed.

(n) "Manufacture" means to grind, mix, blend, package, pack, repackage, repack, or process a commercial feed for distribution.

(o) "Medicated feed" means any commercial feed which contains one or more drugs.

(p) "Mineral feed" means a commercial feed designed or intended to supply primarily mineral elements or inorganic nutrients.

(q) "Official sample" means any sample of commercial feed taken by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this article and rules promulgated hereunder.

(r) "Percent" or "percentage" means percentage by weights.

(s) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, fiduciary, firm, company, corporation or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not.

(t) "Pet" means any domesticated species of animal normally maintained in or near the household of the owner including, but not limited to, dogs, cats and specialty pets.

(u) "Pet food" means any commercial feed manufactured and distributed for consumption by pets.

(v) "Principal display panel" means the part of a label that is intended to be shown and examined when the product is on display for retail sale.

(w) "Process" means any treatment that changes a feed ingredient so that it can no longer be restored to its previous form.

(x) "Product name" means the name of the commercial feed which identifies it, such as: Species of animal, age group of animal, characterizing ingredients, specific use, or other descriptive terms.

(y) "Registrant" means any person who registers commercial feed for distribution or use in this state.

(z) "Repack" or "repackaging" means to pack and label a previously manufactured and packaged commercial feed prior to a specific request of a customer.

(aa) "Specialty pet" means any domesticated pet normally maintained in a cage or tank including, but not limited to, gerbils, hamsters, birds, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes and turtles.

(bb) "Specialty pet food" means any commercial feed intended for consumption by specialty pets.

(cc) "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois.