[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR52.18]

[Page 530-531]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 52--PROCESSED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, PROCESSED PRODUCTS THEREOF, AND CERTAIN OTHER PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS \1\--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart--Regulations Governing Inspection and Certification
 
Sec. 52.18  Issuance of certificates.

    (a) 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 who performed the inspection and 
authorized by the Administrator to affix the inspector's signature to an 
inspection certificate.

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    (3) An inspector designated as the ``inspector in charge,'' when the 
certificate represents composite inspection of several persons.

In all cases the inspection certificate shall be prepared in accordance 
with the facts set forth in the official memoranda made by the inspector 
or inspectors in connection with the inspection. Whenever a certificate 
is signed by a person under a power of attorney the certificate should 
so indicate. The signature of the holder of the power shall appear under 
the name of the inspector who personally inspected the product, and 
whenever a certificate issued is signed by an inspector in charge that 
title must appear in connection with the signature.
    (b) A certificate of loading shall be issued and signed by the 
inspector or licensed sampler authorized to check the loading of a 
specific lot of processed products: Provided, That, another employee of 
the inspection service may sign such certificate of loading covering any 
processed product checkloaded by an inspector or licensed sampler when 
given power of attorney by such inspector or licensed sampler and 
authorized by the Administrator to affix the inspector's or licensed 
sampler's signature to a certificate of loading which has been prepared 
in accordance with the facts set forth in the notes made by the 
inspector or licensed sampler in connection with the checkloading of a 
specific lot of processed products.

[22 FR 3535, May 22, 1957, as amended at 35 FR 14061, Sept. 4, 1970. 
Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977 and further redesignated at 
46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981]