Definitions

(a) "Commissioner," as used in these regulations, means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. (b) "Consumer Commodity" means any food, drug, device, cosmetic, or other article, product, or commodity of any other kind or class, except drugs sold by prescription only, which is customarily produced for sale to retail sales agencies or instrumentalities for consumption by individuals, or use by individuals for purposes of personal care or in the performance of services ordinarily rendered in or around the household, and which usually is consumed or expended in the course of such consumption or use. (c) "Unit Price" of a consumer commodity means the retail price of a consumer commodity expressed in terms of the retail price of such commodity per unit of weight, measure or count, computed to the nearest whole cent or fraction thereof. (d) "Point of Sale" as used in these regulations, means the point at which consumer commodities are offered and displayed for retail sale in such a manner that the consumer may examine and select commodities for purchase without the assistance of sales personnel. (e) As used in these regulations, the terms food, drug, device and cosmetic are defined as in Section 21a-92 of the Connecticut General Statutes: (i) "Food" means (1) articles used for food or drink for man or animals, and (2) chewing gum, and (3) articles used for components of any such article; (ii) "Drug" means (1) articles recognized in the official United States pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States or official national formulary, or any supplement to any of them; (2) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other animals; (3) articles, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or any other animal; and (4) articles intended for use as a component of any articles specified in this subsection; but shall not include devices or their components, parts or accessories; (iii) "Device" means instruments, apparatus and contrivances, including their components, parts, and accessories, intended (1) for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other animals, or (2) to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; (iv) "Cosmetic" means (1) articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance, and (2) articles intended for use as a component of any such articles; except that such term shall not include soap.