FDA’s considers the activity types to have the following meanings:
• Ambient human food storage warehouse/holding facility: A facility that holds or stores
food for human consumption at ambient air temperatures (approximately 21° C/70° F).
Examples include storage tanks and grain elevators.
• Refrigerated human food warehouse/holding facility: A facility that holds or stores food
products for human consumption at refrigerated temperatures (approximately 4° C/40° F
to 0° C/32° F).
• Frozen human food warehouse/holding facility: A facility that holds or stores food for
human consumption at frozen temperatures (approximately 0° C/32° F or below).
• Interstate conveyance caterer/catering point: A facility that prepares complete or partial
meals or drinks from raw or partially processed materials for service to passengers or
crew aboard an interstate conveyance or for consumption by these groups at a location
other than where prepared.
• Contract Sterilizer: A facility that performs contract operations such as sterilization or
irradiation of foods or components of foods, or that provides other microbial reduction
treatments such as steam treatment or propylene oxide (PPO) treatment.
• Labeler/Relabeler: A facility that affixes the original labeling to a food product or
changes in any way the labeling on a food product without affecting the product or its
container.
• Manufacturer/Processor: A non-farm facility that makes food from one or more
ingredients, or synthesizes, prepares, treats, modifies, or manipulates food, including food
crops or ingredients. For purposes of this activity type option, examples of
manufacturing/processing activities include: baking, boiling, bottling, canning, cooking,
cooling, cutting, distilling, drying/dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a
distinct commodity (such as drying/dehydrating grapes to produce raisins), evaporating,
eviscerating, extracting juice, extruding (of animal food), formulating, freezing, grinding,
homogenizing, irradiating, labeling, milling, mixing, packaging (including modified
atmosphere packaging), pasteurizing, peeling, pelleting (of animal food), rendering,
treating to manipulate ripening, trimming, washing, or waxing.
• Acidified food processor: An establishment that manufactures/processes acidified foods as
defined in 21 CFR 114.3(b) and is subject to the requirements of 21 CFR parts 108 and 114.
• Low-acid food processor: An establishment that manufactures/processes thermally
processed low-acid food (as defined in 21 CFR 113.3(n)) packaged in a hermetically
sealed container (as defined in 21 CFR 113.3(j)) and is subject to the requirements of 21
CFR parts 108 and 113.
• Farm Mixed-Type Facility: An establishment that is a farm, but also conducts activities
outside the farm definition that require the establishment to be registered under section
415 of the FD&C Act.
• Packer/Repacker: A facility that packs a food product or products into different
containers without making any change in the form of the product.
• Salvage Operator (Reconditioner): A facility that deals in the resale and reconditioning
of damaged foods.
• Animal food warehouse/holding facility (e.g., storage facilities, including storage tanks,
grain elevators): A facility that holds or stores food for animal consumption at any
temperature.
• Other activity: Any other activity conducted at the facility not otherwise specified in 21
CFR 1.232(a)(8).
