[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR592.2]

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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 592_VOLUNTARY INSPECTION OF EGG PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 592.2  Terms defined.

    For the purpose of the regulations in this part, unless the context 
otherwise requires, the following terms shall be construed, 
respectively:
    Act means the applicable provisions of the Agricultural Marketing 
Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1087; 7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.), or any other Act of 
Congress conferring like authority.
    Administrator means the Administrator of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service (FSIS) of the Department or any other officer or 
employee of the Department to whom there has been delegated, or to whom 
there may be delegated the authority to act in the Administrator's 
stead.
    Applicant means any interested party who requests any inspection 
service, or appeal inspection, with respect to any product.
    Class means any subdivision of a product based on essential physical 
characteristics that differentiate between major groups of the same 
kind, species, or method of processing.
    Condition means any condition (including, but not being limited to, 
the state of preservation, cleanliness, soundness, wholesomeness, or 
fitness for human food) of any product which affects its 
merchantability; or any condition, including, but not being limited to, 
the processing, or packaging which affects such product.
    Department means the United States Department of Agriculture.
    District Manager means the manager in charge of a district, which is 
a designated geographical area.
    Eggs of Current Production means shell eggs that have moved through 
the usual marketing channels since the date of lay and are not in excess 
of 60 days old.
    Holiday or Legal holiday means the legal public holidays specified 
by the Congress in paragraph (a) of section 6103, Title 5, of the United 
States Code.
    Inspection means the act by inspection program personnel of:
    (1) Determining, according to these regulations, the class, quality, 
quantity, or condition of any product by examining each unit thereof or 
a representative sample drawn by inspection program personnel;
    (2) Issuing a certificate; or
    (3) Identifying, when requested by the applicant, any product by 
means of official identification pursuant to the Act and this part.
    Inspection certificate or certificate means a statement, either 
written or printed, issued by inspection program personnel pursuant to 
the Act and this

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part, relative to the class, quality, quantity, and condition of 
products.
    Inspection program personnel (employee) means employees of the 
Department authorized by the Secretary to investigate and certify, in 
accordance with the Act and this part, to shippers of products and other 
interested parties the class, quality, quantity, and condition of such 
products.
    Interested party means any person financially interested in a 
transaction involving any inspection or appeal inspection of any 
product.
    Official plant means any plant in which the facilities and methods 
of operation therein have been found by the Administrator to be suitable 
and adequate for inspection in accordance with this part and in which 
such service is carried on.
    Person means any individual, partnership, association, business 
trust, corporation, or any organized group of persons, whether 
incorporated or not.
    Product or products means eggs (whether liquid, frozen, or dried), 
egg products, and any food product that is prepared or manufactured and 
contains eggs as an ingredient.
    Program employee means any person employed by the Department or any 
cooperating agency who is authorized by the Secretary to do any work or 
perform any duty in connection with the program.
    Quality means the inherent properties of any product that determine 
its relative degree of excellence.
    Regulations mean the provisions in this part.
    Sampling means the act of taking samples of any product for 
inspection.
    Secretary means the Secretary of the Department or any other officer 
or employee of the Department to whom there has heretofore been 
delegated, or to whom there may hereafter be delegated, the authority to 
act in the Secretary's stead.
    Service means: (1) Any inspection, in accordance with the 
Agriculture Marketing Act and the regulations in this part, of any 
product,
    (2) Supervision, in any official plant, of the processing, packaging 
and identification, or
    (3) Any appeal inspection of any previously inspected product.
    Shell eggs mean the shell eggs of the domesticated chicken, turkey, 
duck, goose, and guinea.