§ 53.2 Terms defined. For the purpose of the regulations in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall be construed respectively to mean:

(a) The acts. The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (Title II of the act of Congress approved August 14, 1946, 60 Stat. 1087) and the following provision of the act of Congress making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and for other purposes, approved July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 523), or a similar provision of any future act of Congress conferring like authority:

For the investigations 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 containing an agricultural commodity or derivative thereof when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom 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 service rendered.

(b) Department. The United States Department of Agriculture.

(c) Secretary. The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore been delegated or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.

(d) Service. Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department.

(e) Administrator. The Administrator of the Service, or any officer or employee of the Service to whom authority has heretofore lawfully been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter lawfully be delegated, to act in his stead.

(i) Official grader. An employee of the Department authorized by the Secretary to grade products and investigate and certify to shippers and other financially interested parties the class, grade, other quality designation, quantity, or condition of products under the acts.

(j) Supervisor of grading. An official grader or other qualified person designated by the Administrator to supervise grading, grade identification, and certification of products and to maintain uniformity thereof under the provisions of the acts and the regulations.

(k) Regulations. Rules and regulations of the Secretary in this part.

(1) Products. Meats, prepared meats, meat food products, and meat byproducts prepared under Federal inspection or under other official inspection acceptable to the Administrator.

(m) Meat. The skeletal part of cattle, sheep, swine or goats intended for human food with or without the overlying fat, portions of bones, skins, and other normal components of the flesh, and the edible part of the muscle found in the tongue, the diaphragm, the heart, and the esophagus.

(n) Prepared meats. The product intended for human food obtained by subjecting meat to a process of drying, curing, smoking, cooking, comminuting, seasoning, or flavoring, or to any combination of such processes, to which no considerable quantity of any substance other than meat or meat by-products has been added.

(0) Meat food products. Any articles of food or any articles which enter into the composition of food for human consumption, which are derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part, by a process of manufacture, from any edible portion of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats.

(p) Meat by-products. All edible parts, other than meat, intended for human food, derived from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, and including such organs and parts as, livers, kidneys, sweetbreads, brains, lungs, spleens, stomachs, tripe, lips, snouts, and ears.

(q) Carcass. The commercially prepared or dressed body of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goat intended for human food.

(r) Designated market. Any shipping, receiving, handling, or distributing point designated by the Administrator as an