{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-58.1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 58.1","heading":"Meaning of words.","body":"For the purpose of the regulations in this subpart, words in the singular form shall be deemed to import the plural and vice versa, as the case may demand. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meaning:\nAct means the applicable provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1087, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) or any other act of Congress conferring like authority.\nAdministrator means the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service or any other officer or employee of the Agricultural Marketing Service to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.\nAgricultural Marketing Service or AMS means the Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department.\nApplicant means any interested party who has applied for inspection or grading service.\nApproved laboratory means a laboratory in which the facilities and equipment used for official testing have been adequate to perform the necessary official tests in accordance with this part.\nApproved plant means one or more adjacent buildings, or parts thereof, comprising a single plant at one location in which the facilities and methods of operation therein have been surveyed and approved by the Administrator as suitable and adequate for inspection or grading service in accordance with this part.\nArea Supervisor means any employee of the Branch in charge of dairy inspection or grading service in a designated geographical area.\nBranch means the Dairy Inspection Branch of the Poultry and Dairy Quality Division.\nChief means the Chief of the Branch, or any officer or employee of the Branch to whom authority has been heretofore delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.\nClass means any subdivision of a product based on essential physical characteristics that differentiate between major groups of the same kind or method of processing.\nCondition of container means the degree of acceptability of the container with respect to freedom from defects which affect its serviceability, including appearance as well as usability, of the container for its intended purpose.\nCondition of product or condition is an expression of the extent to which a product is free from defects which affect its usability, including but not limited to, the state of preservation, cleanliness, soundness, wholesomeness, or fitness for human food.\nContinuous resident service or resident service is inspection or grading service performed at a dairy manufacturing plant or grading station by an inspector or grader assigned to the plant or station on a continuous, year-round, resident basis.\nDepartment or USDA means the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\nDirector means the Director of the Poultry and Dairy Quality Division, or any other officer or employee of the Division to whom authority has heretofore been delegated or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.\nDivision means the Poultry and Dairy Quality Division of the Agricultural Marketing Service.\nInspection or grading service or service means in accordance with this part, the act of (a) drawing samples of any product; (b) determining the class, grade, quality, composition, size, quantity, or condition of any product by examining each unit or representative samples; (c) determining condition of product containers; (d) identifying any product or packaging material by means of official identification; (e) regrading or appeal grading of a previously graded product; (f) inspecting dairy plant facilities, equipment, and operations; such as, processing, manufacturing, packaging, repackaging, and quality control; (g) supervision of packaging inspected or graded product; (h) reinspection or appeal inspection; and (i) issuing an inspection or grading certificate or sampling, inspection, or other report related to any of the foregoing.\nInspector or grader means any Federal or State employee to whom a license has been issued by the Administrator to perform one or more types of inspection or grading services.\nInspection or grading office means the office of any inspector or grader.\nInterested party means any person financially interested in a transaction involving any inspection or grading service.\nLicensed plant employee means an employee of an approved plant to whom a license is issued by the Administrator to supervise packaging of officially inspected or graded product, perform laboratory tests, or perform other duties as assigned by the Administrator. A licensed plant employee is not authorized to issue any inspection or grading certificate.\nProduct means butter, cheese (whether natural or processed), milk, cream, milk products (whether dried, frozen, evaporated, stabilized, or condensed), ice cream, dry whey, dry buttermilk, and any other food product, which is prepared or manufactured in whole or in part from any of the aforesaid products, as the Administrator may hereafter designate.\nPerson means any individual, partnership, association, business, trust, corporation, or any organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not.\nPlant survey means an appraisal of the plant to determine extent to which facilities, equipment, method of operation, and raw material being received are in accordance with the provisions of this part. The survey shall be used to determine suitability of the plant for inspection or grading service.\nQuality means the inherent properties of any product which determine its relative degree of excellence.\nRegulations means the provisions of this subpart.\nSampling report means a statement issued by an inspector or grader identifying samples taken by him for inspection or grading service.\nSupervisor of packaging means an employee of the Department or other person licensed by the Administrator to supervise the packaging and official identification of product or any repackaging of bulk product.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER I—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","SUBCHAPTER C—REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 AND THE EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT","PART 58—GRADING AND INSPECTION, GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR APPROVED PLANTS AND STANDARDS FOR GRADES OF DAIRY PRODUCTS","Subpart A—Provisions Governing the Inspection and Grading Services of Manufactured or Processed Dairy Products"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"60981b7bc3cfe3b55f05a7a615fdb091f6e004d901fc2621c9e5738593c1ec88","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-57.1000","next":"us/7-cfr-58.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}