---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 149"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "149"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/149"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products"
  - "Subchapter IV — Importation of Milk and Cream"
---

# §149. Definitions


When used in this subchapter—

- (a) The term “person” means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation.
- (b) The term “United States” means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.

## Source credit

(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 9, 44 Stat. 1103; Pub. L. 86–70, § 19, June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 86–624, § 15, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 415.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1960—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–624 substituted “means the fifty States and the District of Columbia” for “means continental United States, including Alaska”.

1959—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–70 inserted “, including Alaska” after “continental United States”.