[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR350.2]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 350--SPECIAL SERVICES RELATING TO MEAT AND OTHER PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 350.2  Definitions.

    For the purposes of the regulations in this part, unless the context 
otherwise requires, the following terms shall be construed, 
respectively, to mean:

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    (a) Department. The United States Department of Agriculture.
    (b) Service. The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the 
Department.
    (c) Administrator. The Administrator of the Service or any officer 
or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore been 
delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in 
his stead.
    (d) [Reserved]
    (e) Inspector. Any officer or employee of the Department authorized 
to perform any duties under the regulations in this part.
    (f) Person. Any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, 
partnership, society, or joint stock company, or other organized group 
of any of the foregoing.
    (g) Federally inspected and passed. Inspected and passed under the 
Meat Inspection Act, as amended (21 U.S.C. 71 et seq.) or under the 
provisions in paragraphs 306 (b) and (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1306 (b) and (c)).
    (h) Official establishment. An establishment operated under Federal 
meat inspection pursuant to the Meat Inspection Act, as amended (21 
U.S.C. 71 et seq.).
    (i) Food article. Any article of human food derived wholly or in 
part from meat, meat byproducts, or meat food products, which is not 
subject to the Federal meat inspection laws, and animal casings, for 
which the mark of Federal meat inspection is requested: Provided, That 
such articles and casings are derived from federally inspected and 
passed carcasses.
    (j) [Reserved]
    (k) Secretary. The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or 
any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has 
heretofore been delegated, or may hereafter be delegated, to act in his 
stead in connection with the function involved.

[23 FR 9982, Dec. 23, 1958, as amended at 25 FR 9642, Oct. 7, 1960; 30 
FR 258, Jan. 9, 1965. Redesignated and amended at 30 FR 4195, Mar. 31, 
1965; 32 FR 6021, Apr. 15, 1967; 32 FR 13115, Sept. 15, 1967. Further 
redesignated at 35 FR 15554, Oct. 3, 1970, and amended at 43 FR 11147, 
Mar. 17, 1978; 54 FR 1329, Jan. 13, 1989]