[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

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:

    (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]



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