§2575b Subpart definitions

Summary

For this part, several key words are given specific meanings. Animal means animals and includes fish, bees, and wild animals. Approval procedure means any required registration, notice, or other official step to allow an additive to be used or to set a tolerance for a contaminant. Contaminant means things like pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, or other foreign matter. Control or inspection procedure means any check used to make sure a sanitary or phytosanitary rule is met, such as sampling, testing, inspection, monitoring, auditing, certification, or other physical checks of goods, packaging, equipment, or facilities, but it does not mean an approval procedure. Plant means plants and includes wild plants. Risk assessment means an evaluation of either the chance a pest or disease will arrive, spread, and cause harm, or the chance that additives, contaminants, toxins, or disease organisms in food, drink, or feed will harm people or animals. Sanitary or phytosanitary measure means a rule to protect plant, animal, or human life or health from pests, diseases, additives, contaminants, or toxins, or to prevent other damage from pests; such measures can take eight forms, including product standards, production methods, tests or inspections, statistics, sampling, risk-assessment methods, food-safety packaging or labeling, and quarantine or transport requirements.