[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR300.4]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

     CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 

                               AGRICULTURE

 

PART 300_AGENCY MISSION AND ORGANIZATION--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 300.4  Organizational terminology; personnel.



    (a) Unless otherwise specifically provided or required in the 

context of a particular part of the regulations:



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    Administrator means the Administrator of the Food Safety and 

Inspection Service or any other officer or employee of the Department to 

whom authority has been or may in the future be delegated to act in his 

or her stead.

    Circuit Supervisor means the official of the Inspection Service who 

is assigned responsibility for supervising the conduct of inspection at 

a specific group of official establishments.

    Inspection program, inspection service, or program means the 

organizational unit within the Department with responsibility for 

carrying out the FMIA, the PPIA, and the EPIA.

    Inspection program employee, inspection service employee, or program 

employee means an inspector or other government employee who is 

authorized to conduct any inspection or perform any other duty in 

connection with the inspection program, inspection service, or program.

    Inspection service supervisor or Inspection program supervisor means 

an inspection program or service employee or program employee who is 

delegated authority to exercise supervision over one or more phases of 

the inspection program.

    Inspector means an inspector of the inspection program, inspection 

service, and program. (``Inspector'' includes an employee or official of 

the Federal government or the government of a State or territory or the 

District of Columbia who is authorized by the Administrator to inspect 

meat and meat products or poultry and poultry products under the 

authority of the FMIA or the PPIA, respectively, under an agreement 

entered into between the Administrator and the appropriate State or 

other agency.)

    Inspector in charge or IIC means an inspection program employee, 

inspection service employee, or program employee who has primary 

responsibility for inspection program functions at a particular official 

establishment.

    Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or 

his or her delegate.

    (b) FSIS has replaced the regional office and import field office 

structure referenced in some parts of subchapter A of this chapter. 

Authority previously delegated to Regional Directors now is delegated to 

district managers; authority previously delegated to area supervisors 

and import supervisors now is delegated to inspection program 

supervisors in the successor district offices.



[69 FR 253, Jan. 5, 2004]