UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE 
TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE 
Chapter I—Agricultural Marketing 
Service (Standards, Inspections, 
Marketing Practices), Department 
of Agriculture 
Part 52—PROCESSED FRUITS AND VEGE- 
TABLES, PROCESSED PRODUCTS THEREOF, 
AND CERTAIN OTHER PROCESSED Foop 
PrRoDUCTS* 
SUBPART—REGULATIONS GOVERNING 
INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION 
Bec. 
62.1 Administration of regulations. 
DEFINITIONS 
Meaning of words. 
Terms defined. 
INSPECTION SERVICE 
Where inspection service is offered. 
Who may obtain inspection service. 
How to make application. 
Information required in connection 
with application. 
Filing of application. 
Record of filing time. 
When application may be rejected. 
When application may be withdrawn. 
Disposition of inspected sample. 
Basis of inspection. 
Order of inspection service. 
Postponing inspection service. 
Financial interest of inspector. 
Forms of certificates. 
Issuance of certificates. 
Issuance of corrected certificates. 
Issuance of an inspection report in 
lieu of an inspection certificate. 
Disposition of inspection certificates. 
Report of inspection results prior to 
issuance of formal report. 
52.2 
62.3 
52.4 
52.5 
52.6 
62.7 
62.8 
52.9 
52.10 
62.11 
62.12 
52.13 
62.14 
62.15 
52.16 
52.17 
52.18 
62.19 
52.20 
52.21 
52.22 
APPEAL INSPECTION 
52.23 When appeal inspection may be re- 
quested. 
Where to file for an appeal inspection 
and information required. 
When an application for an appeal 
inspection may be withdrawn. 
When appeal inspection may be re- 
fused. 
52.27 Who shall perform appeal inspection. 
52.28 Appeal inspection certificate. 
LICENSING OF SAMPLERS AND INSPECTORS 
52.24 
62.25 
52.26 
52.29 Who may become licensed sampler. 
52.30 Application to become a_ licensed 
sampler. 
52.31 Inspectors. 
52.32 Suspension or revocation of license 
of licensed sampler or licensed in- 
spector. 
52.33 Surrender of license. 
SAMPLING 
52.34 How samples are drawn by inspectors 
or licensed samplers. 
2 Among such other processed food prod- 
ucts are the following: Honey; molasses, 
except for stock feed; nuts and nut prod- 
ucts, except oil; sugar (cane, beet, and 
maple); sirups (blended), sirups, except 
from grain; marine food products, except oil. 
Sec. 
52.35 
52.36 
Accessibility for sampling. 
How officially drawn samples are to 
be identified. 
How samples are to be shipped. 
Sampling rates for officially drawn 
samples. 
Issuance of certificate of sampling. 
Identification of lots sampled. 
52.37 
62.38 
52.39 
52.40 
FEES AND CHARGES 
52.41 
52.42 
62.43 
Payment of fees and charges. 
Schedule of fees. 
Fees to be charged and collected for 
sampling when performed by a li- 
censed sampler. 
Inspection fees when charges for sam- 
pling have been collected by a 
licensed sampler. 
Inspection fees when charges for 
sampling have not been collected 
b, a licensed sampler. 
Fee for appeal inspection. 
Charges for micro, chemical and cer- 
tain other special analyses. 
When charges are to be based on 
hourly rate not otherwise provided 
for in this part. 
Fees for score sheets. 
Fees for additional copies of inspec- 
tion certificates. 
Travel and other expenses. 
Charges for inspection service on a 
contract basis. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
52.44 
62.45 
52.46 
52.47 
52.48 
52.49 
52.50 
52.51 
62.52 
52.53 
52.54 
62.55 
Fraud or misrepresentation. 
Political activity. 
Interfering with an inspector or li- 
censed sampler. 
52.56 Compliance with other laws. 
62.57 Identification. 
REQUIREMENTS FOR PLANTS OPERATING UNDER 
CONTINUOUS INSPECTION ON A CONTRACT 
BASIS 
62.81 Plant survey. 
52.82 Premises. 
52.83 Buildings and structures. 
52.84 Facilities. 
52.85 Equipment. 
62.86 Operations and operating procedures. 
62.87 Personnel; health. 
§ 52.1 Administration of regulations. 
The Administrator, Agricultural Market- 
ing Service, United States Department 
of Agriculture is charged with the 
administration of the regulations in 
this part except that he may delegate 
any or all of such functions to any offi- 
cer or employee cf the Agricultural 
Marketing Service of the Department, 
in his discretion. 
DEFINITIONS 
§ 52.2 Meaning of words. Words in 
the regulations in this part in the sin- 
gular form shall be deemed to import 
the plural and vice versa, as the case 
may demand. 
§ 52.3 Terms defined. For the pur- 
pose of the regulations in this part, un- 
less the context otherwise requires, the 
following terms shall have the following 
meanings: 
(a) “Act”? means the following pro- 
visions of the Agricultural Marketing Act 
of 1946 (69 Stat. 1087; 7 U. S. C. 1621 
et seq.) and of the Department of Agri- 
culture Appropriation Act, 1951 (Pub. 
Law 759: 81st Cong., approved S2=ptem- 
ber 6, 1950, as continued in effect by Pub- 
lic Law 70: 82d Congress, approved 
July 1, 1951), or any future act of Con- 
gress conferring similar authority: 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 
* * ¢* To inspect, certify, and tdentify 
the class, quality, quantity, and condition 
of agricultural products when shipped or 
received in interstate commerce. under such 
rules and regulations as the Secretary of Ag- 
ricuiture may prescribe, including assess- 
ment and collection of such fees as will be 
reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover 
the cost of the service rendered, to the end 
that agricultural products may be marketed 
to the best advantage, that trading may be 
facilitated and that consumers may be able 
to obtain the quality product which they 
desire, except that no person shall be re- 
quired to use the service authorized by this 
subsection: .2. 4.8 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION 
Act, 1951 
Market inspection of farm products. ¥or 
the investigation and certification, in one 
or more jurisdictions, to shippers and other 
interested parties of the class, quality, and 
condition of any agricultural commodity or 
food product, whether raw, dried, canned, 
or otherwise processed, and any product con- 
taining an agricultural commodity or de- 
rivative thereof when offered for interstate 
shipment or when received at such impor- 
tant central markets as the Secretary may 
from time to time designate, or at points 
which may be conveniently reached there- 
from under such rules and regulations as he 
may prescribe, including payment of such 
fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as 
may be to cover the cost for the services ren- 
Gered:4. 27'S 
Marketing farm products. For acquiring 
and diffusing among the people of the United 
States useful information relative to the 
needed supplies, standardization, classifica- 
tion, grading, preparation for market, han- 
dling. transportation, storage, and marketing 
of. farm and food products, including the 
demonstration and promotion: of the use 
of uniform standards of classification of 
American farm and food products through- 
out the world © *% ® 
(b) “Administrator”,means the 
Administrator of the Agricultural Mar- 
keting Service. 
(c) “Applicant” means any interested 
party who requests inspection service 
under the regulations in this part. 
(d) “Case” means the number of con- 
tainers (cased or uncased) which, by the 
particular industry are ordinarily packed 
in a shipping container. 
(e) “Certificate of loading’ means a 
statement, either written or printed, 
issued pursuant to the regulations in this 
