---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 4802"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "4802"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/4802"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information"
---

# §4802. Definitions


For purposes of this chapter:

- (1) The term “Board” means the National [Pork](#9) Board established under [section 4808 of this title](/usc/7/4808.md).
- (2) The term “consumer information” means an activity intended to broaden the understanding of sound nutritional attributes of [pork](#9) or [pork products](#10), including the role of [pork](#9) or [pork products](#10) in a balanced, healthy diet.
- (3) The term “Delegate Body” means the National [Pork](#9) [Producers](#11) Delegate Body established under [section 4806 of this title](/usc/7/4806.md).
- (4) The term “imported” means entered, or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States.
- (5) The term “importer” means a [person](#7) who imports [porcine animals](#8), [pork](#9), or [pork products](#10) into the United States.
- (6) The term “order” means a [pork](#9) and [pork products](#10) [promotion](#12), [research](#13), and [consumer information](#2) order issued under [section 4803 of this title](/usc/7/4803.md).
- (7) The term “person” means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, organization, cooperative, or other entity.
- (8) The term “porcine animal” means a [swine](/usc/7/198.md?p=6) raised for—
  - (A) feeder pigs;
  - (B) seedstock; or
  - (C) slaughter.
- (9) The term “pork” means the flesh of a [porcine animal](#8).
- (10) The term “pork product” means a product produced or processed in whole or in part from [pork](#9).
- (11) The term “producer” means a [person](#7) who produces [porcine animals](#8) in the United States for sale in commerce.
- (12) The term “promotion” means an action, including paid advertising, taken to present a favorable image for [porcine animals](#8), [pork](#9), or [pork products](#10) to the public with the intent of improving the competitive position and stimulating sales of [porcine animals](#8), [pork](#9), or [pork products](#10).
- (13) The term “research” means—
  - (A) [research](#13) designed to advance, expand, or improve the image, desirability, nutritional value, usage, marketability, production, or quality of [porcine animals](#8), [pork](#9), or [pork products](#10); or
  - (B) dissemination to a [person](#7) of the results of such [research](#13).
- (14) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- (15) The term “State” means each of the 50 States.
- (16) The term “State association” means—
  - (A) the single organization of [pork](#9) [producers](#11) in a [State](#15) that is—
    - (i) organized under the laws of the [State](#15) in which such association operates; and
    - (ii) recognized by the chief executive officer of such [State](#15) as representing the [pork](#9) [producers](#11) of such [State](#15); or
  - (B) if such organization does not exist on January 1, 1986, an organization that represents not fewer than 50 [pork](#9) [producers](#11) who [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) annually, in the aggregate, not less than 10 percent of the volume (measured in pounds) of [porcine animals](#8) marketed in such [State](#15).
- (17) The term “to market” means to sell or to otherwise dispose of a [porcine animal](#8), [pork](#9), or [pork product](#10) in commerce.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–198, title XVI, § 1613, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1607.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1986, see section 1631 of Pub. L. 99–198, set out as a note under section 4801 of this title.