As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ANTISEPTIC
Any substance which will inhibit the growth and multiplication of
microorganisms without necessarily killing them.
CLEANSING
The thorough removal of dust and other contaminating material in
such a way as to prevent the entry thereof, as far as may be possible, into
other rooms or dwellings; washing with soap and hot water; scouring, airing
and exposure to sunlight.
CONTACT SUSPECT
Any person who has been sufficiently near or exposed to any infected
person to make probable the transmission of an infectious or causative agent
to such person.
DISINFECTANT
Any chemical substance or agent which will destroy disease-producing
microorganisms.
DISINFECTION
The process of destroying the vitality of the disease-producing organisms
by physical or chemical means.
GERMICIDE
Any substance which will kill microorganisms.
HEALTH OFFICER
That person selected for that office by the Haddon Regional Health
Commission and by this municipality.
ISOLATION
(1)
The separation of persons or animals suffering from a communicable disease,
or carriers of the infectious organisms, from other persons, animals or insects
in such places as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious
agent to susceptible persons.
(2)
The separation of persons or animals which have come in contact with
persons, insects or animals afflicted with infectious or communicable diseases.
This "isolation" shall not apply to the attending physician nor to the attending
graduate nurse.
LICENSE
The formal written permission to perform certain acts or carry on
a certain business embodied in the document granting such permission, issued
by the Board in accordance with its rules and regulations and this chapter.
PERMIT
Temporary permission in writing to cover the doing of a single act
or a series of acts, which may be revoked by this Board at any time although
the act or acts for which the permit was granted have not been completed.
PERSON
Any person or persons, corporation or association of persons, and
"he," "his," or "him" shall include those of the female sex.
QUARANTINE
The confining of persons, animals or materials within a designated
area and excluding other persons, animals, insects or materials from such
area.
SALE
Every delivery of food whether the same be by direct sale or the
solicitation or acceptance of an order for food, and including exchange, barter,
traffic in, keeping and exposing for sale, displaying for sale, serving with
meals, delivering for value, peddling, possessing with intent to sell; the
gratuitous delivery or gift of any food by any licensee or person to whom
a food certificate has been issued, or by any other person.
SANITIZATION
The process of rendering eating or drinking utensils free from disease
bacteria and so clean and disinfected as to have a total bacterial count of
not more than 100 per utensil when sampled in accordance with approved methods
in an approved laboratory.
STATE SANITARY CODE
The Sanitary Code enacted by the Department of Health of the State
of New Jersey.
STERILIZATION
The destruction of all microbial life on or in an object.