§2578b Definitions

Summary

Defines some key words used here. "Agency" means a federal department or agency (or a group of them). "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Food and Drugs. "International standard-setting organization" means a group made up of representatives from two or more countries that makes or changes international standards. "Sanitary or phytosanitary standard" means a standard used as the basis for a health or plant-protection rule. "International standard" covers four kinds of standards: food safety standards from the Codex Alimentarius Commission; animal health and zoonoses standards from the International Office of Epizootics; plant health standards from the International Plant Protection Convention working with the North American Plant Protection Organization; and standards set by any other international group agreed to by the USMCA countries or by WTO members. Other definitions found in a related part also apply here, except when that part refers to the United States in one rule — for a foreign country's sanitary or phytosanitary measure, that reference should be read as the foreign country instead.