Inspection service.
Inspection service. Inspection service means:
(1) The sampling pursuant to the regulations in this part;
(2) The determination pursuant to the regulations in this part of:
(i) Essential characteristics such as style, type, size, or identity of any processed product which differentiates between major groups of the same kind;
(ii) The class, quality, and condition of any processed product, including the condition of the container thereof by the examination of appropriate samples;
(3) The issuance of any certificate of sampling, inspection certificates, or certificates of loading of a processed product, or any report relative to any of the foregoing; or
(4) Performance by an inspector of any related services such as to observe the preparation of the product from its raw state through each step in the entire process; or observe conditions under which the product is being harvested, prepared, handled, stored, processed, packed, preserved, transported, or held; or observe sanitation as a prerequisite to the inspection of the processed product, either on a contract basis or periodic basis; or checkload the inspected processed product in connection with the marketing of the product, or any other type of service of a consultative or advisory nature related herewith.
Source
50 CFR § 260.6
Scoping language
Words in the regulations in this part in the singular form shall be deemed to import the plural and vice versa, as the case may demand. For the purposes of the regulations in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings: