§2575b Subpart Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used for rules that protect plant, animal, and human health in trade. "Animal" means animals, including fish, bees, and wild animals. "Plant" means plants, including wild plants. "Contaminant" means things like pesticide or veterinary drug leftovers and other foreign matter. "Approval procedure" means any required registration, notification, or similar step needed before an additive can be used or a food, drink, or feed with that additive or contaminant can be sold. "Control or inspection procedure" means ways to check that a health rule is followed, such as sampling, testing, inspection, monitoring, audits, certification, or related physical checks, and it does not include approval procedures. "Risk assessment" means an evaluation of the chance and likely damage from pests, diseases, or harmful substances in food, feed, plants, or animals. A "sanitary or phytosanitary measure" means actions to protect U.S. plant, animal, or human life and health from pests, diseases, additives, contaminants, toxins, or organisms and to limit pest damage. Those measures can take many forms — eight kinds are listed, including product limits, processing rules, testing/inspection/approval steps, statistical or sampling methods, risk-assessment methods, safety labeling or packaging, and quarantine or transport treatments.