[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR51.19]

[Page 334]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 51--FRESH FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND OTHER PRODUCTS \1, 2\ (INSPECTION, CERTIFICATION, AND STANDARDS)--Table of Contents

                        Subpart--Regulations \1\
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Sec. 51.19  Issuance of certificates.

    (a) A separate certificate shall be issued for each lot inspected, 
except that when an application covers more than one lot a single 
certificate may be issued to cover all such lots. The person signing and 
issuing the certificate shall be one of the following:
    (1) The inspector who performed the inspection;
    (2) Another employee of the Inspection Service who has been given 
power of attorney by the inspector and authorized by the Administrator 
to affix the inspector's signature to an inspection certificate;
    (3) Another employee of the Inspection Service who has been 
authorized by the Administrator to act in a supervisory capacity;
    (4) With the approval of the administrator, the signature of the 
person performing the inspection or that of an employee of the 
Inspection Service who has been authorized to act in a supervisory 
capacity may be affixed by computer to an official certificate.

Provided, That in all cases the inspection certificate shall be prepared 
in accordance with the official memoranda of the inspector or inspectors 
who performed the inspection: And provided further, That whenever a 
certificate issued is signed by a person given power of attorney by the 
inspector, that person's signature must appear along with the name of 
the inspector.
    (b) When the inspection is made for the purpose of determining 
whether food products for use by the applicant comply with contract 
specifications therefor, a formal certificate need not be issued, but 
the fact of such compliance or noncompliance may be indicated by 
affixing an appropriate stamp or mark on such products or the containers 
thereof, at the discretion of the inspector.

[35 FR 13571, Aug. 26, 1970. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, 
and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981; 51 FR 8478, Mar. 
12, 1986]