[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR592.5]

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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. 592.5  Designation of official certificates, memoranda, marks, other
identifications, and devices for purposes of the Agricultural Marketing Act.

    Subsection 203(h) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as 
amended by Public Law 272, 84th Congress, provides criminal penalties 
for various specified offenses relating to official certificates, 
memoranda, marks or other identifications, and devices for making such 
marks or identifications, issued or authorized under section 203 of said 
Act, and certain misrepresentations concerning the inspection of 
agricultural products under said section. For the purposes of said 
subsection and the provisions in this part, the terms listed below shall 
have the respective meanings specified:
    (a) Official certificate means any form of certification, either 
written or printed, used under this part to certify with respect to the 
sampling, inspection, class, quality, quantity, or condition of products 
(including the compliance of products with applicable specifications).
    (b) Official memorandum means any initial record of findings made by 
an authorized person in the process of inspecting, or sampling pursuant 
to this part, any processing or plant-operation report made by an 
authorized person in connection with inspecting, or sampling under this 
part and any report made by an authorized person of services performed 
pursuant to this part.
    (c) Official mark means the inspection mark, and any other mark or 
symbol formulated pursuant to the regulations in this part, stating that 
the product was inspected, or for the purpose of maintaining the 
identity of the product.
    (d) Official identification means any United States (U.S.) standard 
designation of class, quality, quantity, or condition specified in this 
part or any symbol, stamp, label, or seal indicating that the product 
has been officially inspected or indicating the class, quality, 
quantity, or condition of the product approved by the Administrator and 
authorized to be affixed to any product,

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or affixed to or printed on the packaging material of any product.
    (e) Official device means a printed label, or other method as 
approved by the Secretary for the purpose of applying any official mark 
or other identification to any product of the packaging material 
thereof.

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