IWC 08 - Industries Handling Products After Harvest

“Industries Handling Products After Harvest” means any industry, business or establishment operated for the purpose of grading, sorting, cleaning, drying, cooling, icing, dehydrating, cracking, shelling, candling, separating, slaughtering, picking, plucking, shucking, pasteurizing, fermenting, ripening, molding, or otherwise preparing any agricultural, horticultural, egg, poultry, meat, seafood, rabbit, or dairy product for distribution, and includes all the operations incidental thereto. Examples:  Beet sugar mills Citrus and deciduous fruit packing Cooperatives (farmers’) for warehousing, grading, packing, cooling, etc. Cotton gins Dairies (which process milk commercially) Deciduous and citrus fruit packing Dried fruit processing Drying vegetables and fruit Egg candling and packing Egg processing Feed mills (commercial) Fresh vegetable and fruit packing Fruit drying Fruit (fresh) packing Ice cream (made from whole milk as first processing) Meat slaughtering (commercial packing house