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USDA FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS & MARKS OF INSPECTION 1 © 2013 Aaron J. Lenz Consulting

United States Department of Agriculture

FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE

Acronyms, Abbreviations,

Symbols & Marks of Inspection

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ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS

AA

A Accounting (forms); Animal [food] (establishment type); Appeal [to District

Manager] (Administrative Enforcement Reports/Reporting system)

AA Affirmative Action; Associate Administrator

AAA Animal Agriculture Alliance

AAAP American Association of Avian Pathologists

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAB Applied Analysis Branch

AAD Associate Area Director

AAO Area Administrative Officer

AAR Acquisition Approval Request

AAS Acquisitions and Agreements Section; Annual Assurance Statement

AASD American Association of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Directors

ABB State Agricultural Offices (mailing distribution code)

ABCO Administrative Billings and COllections (see, COD)

ABFO Area Budget and Fiscal Officer

AC Alternating Current; Administrator’s Council; [Information System] Access Control

A/C Accounting Code

Ac Acceptance [number] (maximum number of defects permitted in a sample for

lot to meet an Acceptable Quality Limit)

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ACA Affordable Care Act

AC-BMP Animal Care-Best Management Practices

ACE Automated Commercial Environment [database]

ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, [Incorporated]

ACH Automated Clearing House

ACIA Agence Canadienne d'Inspection des Aliments (see, CFIA)

ACIO Associate Chief Information Officer

ACS Agricultural Cooperative Service; Area Computer Specialist

Acti Actinomycosis

AD Agriculture Department (forms); Area Director

ADA Associate Deputy Administrator; Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

ADAA Animal Drug Availability Act

ADAAA Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act

ADB Analytic Design Branch

ADAAM Associate Deputy Administrator, Administrative Management

ADDB Application and Design Development Branch

ADDM Administrative Development and Data Management

ADEA Age Discrimination in Employment Act

ADI Acceptable Daily Intake

ADM Acting District Manager

ADO Authorized Departmental Officer; Alleged Discriminating Official

ADODR Authorized Departmental Officer’s Designated Representative

ADP Actual Duty Point; Automated Data Processing; Alternative Duty Program

ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution; Animal Disposition Recording [System]

ADRS Animal Disposition Reporting System (database)

ADTL Agency Drug Testing Liaison

AEB Administrative Enforcement Branch

AED Applied Epidemiology Division

AEP Affirmative Employment Program


AER Administrative Enforcement Reports/Reporting [system]

AES Agricultural Experiment Station

AFCU Agriculture Federal Credit Union

AFDO Association of Food and Drug Officials

AFGE American Federation of Government Employees

AFI Application for Federal Inspection (FSIS Form 5200-2)

AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

AFM Administrative and Financial Management

AFOA American Fats and Oils Association

AFV Alternative Fuel Vehicle

AGAR AGriculture Acquisition Regulation

AGPMR AGriculture Property Management Regulation

AGRICOLA AGRICultural On-Line Access (USDA database)

AGS Administrative Grievance System

AH Agriculture Handbook

AHERA Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act

AHSA American Humane Society of America

AI Avian Influenza

AIB American Institute of Baking

AID [United States] Agency for International Development

AIIS Automated Import Information System

AIMD Accounting and Information Management Division

AIMS Agreements Information Management System

AISD Automated Information Systems Division

AISI American Iron and Steel Institute

AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive [system]

AJ Administrative Judge

A/L Annual Leave

ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable


ALC Agency Location Code

ALLRTE ALL Ready-To-Eat (sampling)

ALOC Achieved Level of Competency; Acceptable Level Of Competence

ALP Accredited Laboratory Program

AM Ante-Mortem; Administrative Management

AMA Agricultural Marketing Act (1947)

AMC Accident Management Center

AMD Acquisition Management Division

AMDUCA Animal Medication Drug Use Clarification Act

AMI American Meat Institute

AMR Advanced Meat Recovery

AMRS Advanced Meat Recovery Specie[s]

AMS Agricultural Marketing Service

ANPR Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

AO Administrative Officer

A/O Arm Out (IMPS)

AOAC Association of Official Analytical Chemists [International]

AOACI Association of Official Analytical Chemists International

AOCS American Oil Chemists Society

AOD Administrative Operations Division

AOSB Accounting Operations and Systems Branch

ap avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound of

16 ounces]

APA Administrative Procedure Act

APC Agency Program Coordinator; Aerobic Plate Count

APCRD Accounting Policy and Consolidated Reporting Division

APFS Animal Production Food Safety

APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

APMB Acquisition and Program Management Branch

APMO Area Property Management Officer


APO Accountable Property Officer

APPR APPRopriated

APPSW APPlications SoftWare

AQIS Australia Quarantine and Inspection Service

AQL Acceptable Quality Level/Limit

ARD Automatic Release Date

ARF Action Request Form

ARIS Agricultural Research Information System

ARMB Accounts Receivable Management Branch

ARMP Annual Resource Management Plan

ARMPS Annual Resource Management Plan System

ARMS ARS Resource Management System

ARPAS American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists

ARS Agricultural Research Service

ARS-CMU ARS Correspondence Management Unit

ARSITS Agricultural Research Service Invention Tracking System

ARS-LS ARS Legislative Staff

ARSITS Agricultural Research Service Invention Tracking System

ARS-OA Agricultural Research Service-Office of the Administrator

AS Adminstration Section; Area Supervisor

ASA Assistant Secretary for Administration

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASB Accounting Services Branch

ASBD Armed Services Blood Drive

ASBP Armed Services Blood Program

ASC Agency Selection Committee

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Exchange

ASCR Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

ASD Administrative Services Division


ASDMail Administrative Services Division Mail

ASL American Sign Language

ASO Administrative Services Division

ASOC Agriculture Security Operations Center

ASCR Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

ASD Administrative Services Division

ASE Actual Subsistence Expense

ASHM Area Safety and Health Manager

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ATA Area Travel Assistant

ATAR Agency Technical Assistance Request

ATBC Acetyl TriButyl Citrate

ATM Automated Teller Machine

atm atmosphere[s]

ATP Adenosine TriPhosphate

ATR Agriculture Travel Regulations

ATR/FTR Agriculture Travel Regulations/Federal Travel Regulations

ATS Automated Targeting System (imports)

ATSC Agency Training Steering Committee

ATSC-WG Agency Training Steering Committee-Work Group

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

AU Atomic Unit[s] (weights and measures)

AUO Area Utilization Officer

AUSA Assistant United States Attorney

av avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound

of 16 ounces]

AVB Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker

avdp avoirdupois [from the French, avoir du poids; weights system based on a pound of

16 ounces]

AVIC Area Veterinarian-In-Charge

AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association


AVS Application for Voluntary Reimbursable Services (FSIS Form 5200-6)

aw water activity

AWA Animal Welfare Approved; Alternative Work Arrangements

AWO Advance Web Ordering (Beltsville Service Center)

AWOL Absence/Absent Without Official Leave

AWS Alternative Work Schedule; Alternate Work Site

BB B Boning (establishment type)

B. Bacillus

B49PARTS Raw Chicken Parts Baseline Survey [sampling code]

BA Beltsville Area

BAD Business Application Division

BARC Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

BARD Binational Agricultural Research and Development

BB BlackBerry®

BCA Board of Contract Appeals

BCC Blind Carbon Copy

BD Budget Division

BECB Budget Execution and Control Branch

BEI Biological Exposure Index; Behavioral Event Interview

BEV Beef Export Verification [program]

B&F Budget and Fiscal

BFSB Budget and Fiscal Services Branch (see, FMD)

BHA Butylated HydroxyAnisole (antioxidant)

BHT Butylated HydroxyToluene (antioxidant)

BIB Business Intelligence Branch

BITES Biological Information Transfer E-mail System

BLBT Boneless Lean Beef Tissue

Bld Blade (IMPS)


Bldls Bladeless (IMPS)

BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion

BLM Bureau of Land Management

BMC private sector software maintenance company

BMP Best Management Practices

Bn-in Bone-in (IMPS)

Bnls Boneless (IMPS)

BOAC Billed Office Address Code

BOC Budget Object Class

BOCC Budget Object Classification Code

BOD Biological Oxygen Demand

BOL Bill Of Lading

BP Boiling Point

BPA Blanket Purchase Agreement

BPD [Butterfield’s] Buffered Phosphate Dilutant (sampling)

BPIP Building Profile Input Program

BPM Birds Per Minute (line speed)

BPMS Budget and Performance Management System; Budget and Program

Management Staff

BPW Buffered Peptone Water

B/R Block Ready

BRM Business Reply Mail

BRT Boned, Rolled, Tied/Netted

BSC Beltsville Service Center

BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

BSO Biological Safety Officer

BSL- BioSecurity Level-

BST Basic Supervisor Training

Btu British thermal unit

BU Bargaining Unit


bx box (Beltsville Service Center Advanced Web Ordering)

CC

C Ceiling [limit] (MSDS); [request to withdraw] Custom [exemption] (AER

report type)

C. Chlamydia; Campylobacter; Cysticercus; Clostridium

c

maximum number of positive test results permitted (sampling performance

standard); confirmation (sampling); centi- [1/100]; about/approximately

[from the Latin, circa]

CA Canada (import/export); Corrective Action; Circular A (forms); Commercial

Activities; Cooperative Agreement

C&A Certification and Accreditation

C/A Citric Acid (eggs)

ca. about/approximately [from the Latin, circa]

CAA Clean Air Act

CAC Codex Alimentarius Commission

CAD Contracting and Assistance Division

CAK Controlled Atmosphere Killing (slaughter)

CAFO Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

CAN Common Agreement Number

CAP Controlled Atmosphere Packaging; Computer/Electronic Accommodations

Program [of the Department of Defense]

CAPPS Committee for Agriculture Payroll/Personnel Systems

CAR CARcinogenic

CARC CARCinogenic

CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (MSDS); Controlled Atmosphere Stunning;

Cooperative Agreement Specialist; Central Accounting System

CASSB Classification And Staffing Services Branch

CAST Calf Antimicrobial Swab Test (residue test)

CAT Crisis Action Team

CATS Current Research Information System Allocation Tracking System

CAWL Calvert Animal Welfare League

CBA Collective Bargaining Agreement; Congressional Budget Act; Centrally

Billed Account

CBCA Civilian Board of Contract Appeals


CBP [U.S.] Customs and Border Protection

CBT Computer-Based Training

CC Carbon Copy; Common Carrier; Certificate of Conformance

CCC Commodity Credit Corporation

CCB Configuration Control Board

CCMS Consumer Complaint Monitoring System

CCO Correspondence Control Officer

CCP Critical Control Point

CCPB Compensation and Classification Policy Branch

CCPFV Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetables

CCPO Climate Change Program Office

CCR Central Contractor Registration

CCRVDF Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods

CE Custom Exempt

CD Compact Disc; Canadian Dollar[s]; Center Director

CDC Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention]

CDL Commercial Drivers License

CD-ROM Compact Disk—Read Only Memory

CDSD Communiations and Data Services Division

CDSO Collateral Duty Safety Officer

CDW Collision Damage Waiver (travel)

CE Custom Exempt (slaughter)

CEB Criminal Enforcement Branch

CEDL Continuing Education Distance Learning

CENS Computer Emergency Notification Systems

CEP Continuing Education Program; Career Enhancement Program

CEPD Continuing Education and Professional Development [program]

CEPS Cluster Environmental Protection Specialist

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act


CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CEST Cyber Emergency Support Team

CEU Continuing Education Unit

CF Corrugated Fiberboard (packaging type)

CFC Combined Federal Campaign

CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

CFIA Canadian Food Inspection Agency

CFL Center For Learning

CFO Chief Financial Officer

CFPDC Consolidated Forms and Publications Distribution Center

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CFSAN Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

CG Comptroller General

CGP Competitive Grants Program

cGMP current Good Manufacturing Practice[s]

CG_RES Collector Generated RESidue (PHIS sample management)

CG_SHOW Collector Generated Show [animal] (PHIS sample management)

CF Customs Form

cFSA comprehensive Food Safety Assessment

CFSAN Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

CFU Colony Forming Unit

CG Comptroller General

CHC Chlorinated HydroCarbon (accredited laboratory program type)

CHCO Chief Human Capital Officer

CHEX CHECKS (previously inspected eggs)

CHRH Certified Humane Raised and Handled

CI Carcass Inspector; Compliance Investigator

CID Compliance and Investigations Division

CIFOR Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response


CIP Cleaning-In-Place (equipment); Critical Infrastructure Protection

CIRT Computer Incident Readiness Team

CIS Catfish Inspection Staff; Carcass Inspection Staff; Cooperative Interstate

Shipment [Program]

CITES Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species

CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

CL Critical Limit (HACCP)

CM Configuration Management (see, OCIO); Case Manager

cm centimeter

CMCO Classified Material Control Officer

C&MS Consumer and Marketing Service

CMU Correspondence Management Unit

CN Child Nutrition (labeling); [declared] CouNt [vignette] (labeling)

CNS Central Nervous System; Customer Service Notification

CNSD Computer and Networking Support Division

Cntr Center (IMPS)

CNWD Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information

CO Compliance Officer; Carbon monOxide; Contracting Officer

CO2 Carbon diOxide

C/O Care Of

COA Certificate Of Analysis

COB Close Of Business; Classification and Organization Branch

COD Controller Operations Division (formerly, ABCO); Collect On Delivery

CODEX [United States] Codex [Alimentarius Commission]. Latin, book of food.

COE Condition Of Employment

COLA Cost Of Living Allowance

CompTIA Computing Technology Industry Association

Comp Time Compensatory Time

COMSEC COMmunications SECurity

CONUS CONterminous United States; CONtinental United States


COOP Continuity Of Operations Plan

COP Continuation Of Pay; Chlorinated OrganoPhosphate; Clean-Out-of-Place

CO-PI COoperative Principal Investigator

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

CORE Common On-line Reference for Establishments

COREIMS CORE Inventory and Management System

COSO Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations [of the Treadway Commission]

COTR Contracting Officer's Technical Representative

COTS Commercial-Off-The Shelf Software

CP Contingency Planning

cP centiPoise (viscosity)

cp centiPoise (viscosity)

CPA Congressional and Public Affairs

CPAIS Corporate Property Automated Information System

CPAO Congressional and Public Affairs Office

CPC Chemical-Protective Clothing; CetylPyridinium Chloride

CPE Credit for Professional Education (AgLearn)

CPHST Center for Plant Health Science and Technology

CPIC Capital Planning and Investment Control

CPLA Consumer Packaging and Labelling [sic] Act (CFIA)

CPLR Consumer Packaging and Labelling [sic] Regulations (CFIA)

CPR CardioPulmonary Resuscitation

CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission

CR [Office of] Civil Rights

CRADA Cooperative Research And Development Agreement

CRAS Current Research Information System Resource Allocation Schedule

CRAX CRACKS (egg products)

CRC Cost Responsibility Center

CRD Civil Rights Division


CRI Color Rendering Index; Color Rendition Index

CRES Civil Rights Enterprise System

CRIA Civil Rights Impact Analysis

CRIS Current Research Information System

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CRRB Chemical Residue Risk Branch

CRS Contamination Response System

CRYPTO CRYPTOgraphic [material]

CS

Commercial Standards; Circuit Supervisor; Contract Specialist; Corn Syrup;

Cyber Security; Complaint for Suspension (AER report type); Circuit

Supervisor; Custom Slaughter

cs case

CSA Community Supported Agriculture

CSB Chemical Safety [and Hazard Investigation] Board

CSC Civil Service Commission

CSD Customer Support Division

CSHO Compliance Safety and Health Officer

CSI Consumer Safety Inspector

CSMA Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association [former name of, Consumer

Specialty Products Association]

CSO Consumer Safety Officer (also, Enforcement, Investigations, and Analysis

Officer)

CSOEP Consumer Safety Officer Educational Program

CSP Certified Schedule Program (grading)

CSPA Consumer Specialty Products Association

CSRA Civil Service Reform Act (1978)

CSREES Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

CSRS Civil Service Retirement System

CSS Corn Syrup Solids

CT Central Time; Cellar Trimmed (IMPS); Claims Technician

CTAP Career Transitions Assistance Plan

CTO Chief Technology Officer


CU Cross-Utilization

CUI Controlled Unclassified Information

CUSUM CUmulative SUM [control chart] (sequential analysis technique for

monitoring change detection)

CVM Center for Veterinary Medicine

CWA Clean Water Act (1977)

CWD Chronic Wasting Disease

CY Calendar Year

CZDSS Comprehensive Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System

DD D Decimal [reduction time] (eggs products); Detention (AER report type)

d [scale] division (weights and measures)

DA DiphenylchlorArsine (emetic); Deputy Administrator; District Analyst

DAA Deputy Assistant Administrator

DAAM Deputy Administrator, Administrative Management

DAD Deputy Area Director

DAEA Designated Area Ethics Advisor

DAEO Designated Agency Ethics Official

DAIG Data Analysis and Integration Group

DASHO Designated Agency Safety and Health Official

DACVP Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists

DATS Division of Amenities and Travel Services

DB DataBase

dB deciBel[s] (sound intensity)

dBA deciBel[s] Acoustic (sound intensity)

DBA DataBase Administrator; Doing Business As

DC DiphenylCyanorarsine (emetic); District of Columbia; Direct Current

DCC Data Coordination Committee

DCG Derived Concentration Guide

DCOB Data Center Operations Branch


DCS District Case Specialist

DCU Document Control Unit (PHIS)

D&D Donning and Doffing

DDES Demonstation and Delegated Examining Section

DDM Deputy District Manager

DDO Deputy Director of Operations

DDoS Distributed Denial of Service

DE Dried [whole] Egg(s); Dextrose Equivalence (sweetness index)

D/E Dey/Engley broth

DEAS Directives and Economic Analysis Staff

DEMO [USDA] DEMOnstration [project]

DEO Department of Ethics Official; Deputy Ethics Official

DEP Disability Employment Program

DEPC Disability Employment Program Coordinator

DEPM Disability Employment Program Manager

DEPPC Departmental Excess Personal Property Coordinator

DEU Delegated Examining Unit

DEW Dried Egg Whites

D&F Determination and Findings

DFD Dark, Firm, and Dry (pork)

DFWP Drug Free Workplace Plan

D+G Dextrin and Gum (egg products)

DHEW Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

DHHS Department of Health and Human Services (formerly, DHEW)

DHS Department of Homeland Security

dia diameter

DIC District Inspection Coordinator

DIFP Department of Insurance, Financial institutions and Professional

(Registration)

DILS Department Information Locator System


DIP Debtor In Possession

DIPOA [Brasil] Department of Animal Origin Inspection (from Portuguese,

Departamento de Inspeção de Produtos de Origem Animal)

DJE Dual-Jurisdiction Establishment

DLA Defense Logistics Agency

DM District Manager; DoMestic (travel); Department[al] Manual; Departmental

Management

DML Domestic Meat Label

DMM Domestic Mail Manual

DMS Directives Management Section

DN Departmental Notice

Dn Down (IMPS)

Dnd Denuded (IMPS)

DO District Office; Decision Official

DOA Dead-On-Arrival

Do Ditto (Code of Federal Regulations)

do ditto (Code of Federal Regulations)

DOAs Deads-On-Arrival

.doc document (file extension)

DOD Department Of Defense

DOE Depending On Experience

DOI Department of the Interior

DOJ Department Of Justice

DOL Department Of Labor; Date/Day Of Lay (eggs)

DOT Department Of Transportation

doz dozen

DP Duty Point

DPA Defense Production Act

dpi dots per inch

DPM Department of Payment Management; Department Personnel Manual

DPSC Defense Personnel Support Center


DR Department[al] Regulation

DRG Dorsal Root Ganglia

DRMA District Resource Management Analyst

DRO District Recall Officer

DRV Daily Reference Value (nutrition)

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSMD Data Systems Management Division

DUNS Data [& Bradstreet®] Universal Numbering System (MSDS)

D-value Decimal [reduction time] value (time to destroy one log unit of bacterium at a

given temperature in given medium)

DVA Department of Veterans Affairs

DVAAP Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program

DVD Digital Versatile Disc (formerly, Digital Video Disc)

DVM Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

DVMS District Veterinary Medical Specialist

DY Dried [whole] Yolk[s]; Dried Yellow [product] (eggs)

dz dozen

EE E Edible [fats processing] (establishment type); Equine (establishment type)

E. Escherichia

e [verification scale division]

EA Ethics Advisor; Enterprise Architecture; EAch (count)

EAD Employment Authorization Document; Extramural Agreements Division

eADRS electronic Animal Disposition Reporting System

EALS Executive Associate for Laboratory Services

EAO Enterprise Architecture Office

EAP Employee Assistance Program

EARO Executive Associate for Regulatory Operations

eAUTH electronic AUTHentication

EAS Economic Analysis Staff; Employee Appeals Staff; Extramural Agreements

Specialist


EAWG Enterprise Architecture Working Group

EB Engineering Branch; [Bureau of ] Economic and Business [Affairs]

EBPB Employment and Benefits Policy Branch

EC European Community

ECCB Enterprise Change Control Board

ECD Electron Capture Detector

eCFR electronic Code of Federal Regulations

ECIMS Executive Correspondence and Issues Management Staff

ECOS Electronic Commodity Ordering System

ECPB Employment and Classification Policy Branch

ECPM Employee Counseling Program Manager

ECQ Executive Core Qualifications

EC&R Executive Correspondence and Records Unit

ECS Emergency Coordination Staff

ECT Edge Crush Test (packaging)

EDC Enterprise Data Centers

EDG Employee Development Guide

EDS Electronic Data Systems; Electronic Data Services

EDT Eastern Daylight Time

EEB Encefalopatía Espongiforme Bovina (see, BSE)

EEC European Economic Community

EED Evaluation and Enforcement Division

EEE Eastern Equine Encephalitis

EEO Equal Employment Opportunity

EEOAC Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee

EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint; Equal Employment Opportunity

Counselor

EEO/CR Equal Employment Opportunity/Civil Rights

EEOO Equal Employment Opportunity Officer

EEPS Electronic Entry Processing System


EEV Equine Encephalitis Virus

EE.UU. [United States] (from Spanish, Los Estados Unidos)

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer

e.g. for example [from the Latin, exempli gratia]

eGOV electronic GOVernment

eGWG electronic Government Working Group

EHRI Enterprise Human Resources Integration

EHS Environmental Health and Safety (MSDS)

EHSB Environmental Health and Safety Branch

EI Early Intervention

EIAO Enforcement, Investigations, and Analysis Officer (see, CSO)

EIN Employer’s Identification Number

EIP Emerging Infections Program

EISA [The] Energy Independence and Security Act (1970)

E&IT Electronic and Information Technology

EL Eastern Laboratory

E&L Earnings and Leave [statement]

ELISA Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay

ELViS Export Library Validation Service

ELVS Export Library Validation Service

EM Eosinophilic Myositis

E-mail Electronic mail

EMBD Enterprise Management Branch Division

EMC Emergency Management Committee

EMD Enterprise Management Division

EMS Environmental Management Staff; Environmental Management System;

Economics Management Staff; Executive Management Staff

ENS Enterprise Network Services

EO Equal Opportunity; Electrolyzed/Oxidizing [water]; Executive Order

EO/CR Equal Opportunity/Civil Rights


EOD Enter[ed] On Duty

EOE Employee-Owned Equipment

EOF End Of Form

EOPF Electronic Official Personnel Folder

e-OPF electronic Official Personnel Folder

EOS End Of Set (sampling)

EPA [United States] Environmental Protection Agency

EPB Enforcement Programs Branch

EPCRA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act

EPF Employee Performance Folder

EPI Egg Products Inspector; Egg Products Index

EPIA Egg Products Inspection Act (1969)

EPID Egg Products Inspection Division

EPIDG Egg Products Inspector Development Guide

EPIP Egg Products Inspection Program

EPP Employee Personal Page

EPQ Egg Products Questionnaire

EPS Export Programs Staff

eQIP electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing

ER Employee Relations

ERB Employee Relations Branch (also, LERD)

ERC Equipment Review Committee

ERCD Early Resolution and Conciliation Division

ERF Emergency Relocation Facility

ERI Ethnicity and Race Identification

ERRC Eastern Regional Research Center

ERS Economic Research Service

ERT Emergency Response Team

ERUR Expert Review of Unit Research


ES Extension Service

E/S Electronic Signature

ESB Extramural Services Branch

ESC Enforcement Sequence Code (sampling)

ESF Emergency Support Function

ESI Electronically Stored Information

ESP Employee Suggestion Program

ESPB Employment Services and Policy Branch

ESS Enterprise Shared Services

EST ESTablishment; Eastern Standard Time; Electrical STimulating [equipment]

(slaughter)

Est Establishment

ESTR Environmental Sampling/Testing Recommendation

ET Eastern Time

et al and others [from the Latin, et alii]

etc and the rest [from the Latin, et cetera]

ETL Extract, Transform, and Load (computing)

ETS Electronic[-Government] Travel Service

et seq that which follows [from the Latin, et sequins]

EU European Union

EV Export Verification [program]

EVDO EVolution Data Only/Optimized [wireless card]

EVM Earned Value Management

EW Egg Whites

EWC/A Egg Whites with Citric Acid

EWI Early Warning Indicator

EXTMAT EXTraneous MATerial (PHIS sample management)

FF F Frozen (eggs)

FAA Foreign Agricultural Affairs (see, FAS)


FAC Fat Analysis Committee

FACT Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade [Act] (1990)

FAD Final Agency Decision; Foreign Animal Disease

FAIM Field Automation and Information Management

FALCPA Food Allergens Labeling and Consumer Protection Act

FAO [United Nations Joint] Food and Agriculture Organization

FAOB Financial and Accounting Operations Branch

FAQs Frequently Asked Questions

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FARC Federal Archives and Records Center

FARM Food Access Risk Model

FAS Foreign Agricultural Service (see, FAA)

FASMB Financial and Accounting Systems Management Branch

FASS Federation of Animal Science Societies

FAST Fast Antimicrobial Swab/Screen Test (residue test)

FASTO Foreign Agricultural Service Telegram [outgoing]

Fat cal Calories [from] fat

FATA Federal Agency Travel Administrator

FAX FACSimile

FBA Federal Business and Administrative [Systems]

F-BAT Food Biosecurity Action Team

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBNP Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

FC FluoroCarbon

fc foot-candle (lighting intensity)

FCAT Federal Competency Assessment Tools

FCC Food Chemical Codex [Grade]

FCF For Coloring Food (USA); For Colouring of Food (UK/British

Commonwealth)

FCIC Federal Crop Insurance Corporation


FCIP Federal Career Intern Program (retired 2011)

FCMD Facilities Construction Management Division

FCN Food Contact [Substance] Notification [number]

FCS Food Contact Surface; Food and Consumer Service (formerly, FNS)

FCSO Food Contact Surface [indicating] Organism

FD Facilities Division

FDA Food and Drug Administration

FDAS Food Defense Assessment Staff

FDC Financial Data Code

FD&C Food, Drug, and Cosmetics

FDCC Federal Desktop Core Configuration

FDIB Foodborne Disease Investigation Branch

FDR Food and Drug Regulations (CFIA)

FDW Financial Data Warehouses

FEA Federal Executive Association

FECA Federal Employees’ Compensation Act

FedEx Federal Express®

FEDVIP Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program

FEGLI Federal Employees Group Life Insurance

FEHB Federal Employees Health Benefits [Program]

FEOR Federal Equal Opportunity Reporter®

FEORP Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program

FEPA Federal Employee Pay Act

FEPCA Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act [of 1990]

FERN Food Emergency Response Network

FERS Federal Employees Retirement System

FES Factor Evaluation System

FEVS Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey

FFA Free Fatty Acid[s]


FFAS Farm and Foreign Agriculture Service

FFDCA Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act (1938)

FFF Feds Feed Families

FFIS Foundation Financial Information System

FGIS Federal Grain Inspection Service

FHA Federal Housing Administration

FI Food Inspector; Field Inspector

FICA Federal Insurance Contribution Act

FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

FIRM Foundation Information Real [Property] Management

FIMS FSIS Incident Management System

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards

FIRM Foundation Information for Real Property Management

FIRMR Federal Information Resources Management Regulations

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act

FLD Food Labeling Division

FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

FLO Fat Limitation Options (NAMP Meat Buyer’s Guide)

Fl oz Fluid ounce[s] [from the Latin, onza]

FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority

FLS FrontLine Supervisor

FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act

FLST FrontLine Supervisor Training

FLTCIP Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program

FMCS Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

FMD Foot and Mouth Disease; Field Management Directive; Financial

Management Division

FMI Food Marketing Institute

FMFIA Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act (1982)

FMIA Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906)


FMLA Federal Medical Leave Act; Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)

FMMI Financial Management Modernization Initiative

FMS Financial Management Service (forms)

FNCS Food Nutrition and Consumer Services

FNS Food and Nutrition Service (now known as, FCS)

FO [Office of] Field Operations

FOAB Field Operations Analysis Branch

FOCIS Financial Oversight and Continuous Improvement Staff

FOH Federal Occupational Health

FOIA Freedom Of Information Act

FOMC Facilities Operation Maintenance Contract

FOODCHEM FOOD CHEMistry (PHIS sample management)

FOUO For Official Use Only

FPC Financial Processing Center; Finished Product Category (PHIS)

FPD First Post of Duty

FPL Full Performance Level

FPLA Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

FPM Federal Personnel Manual

FPMR Federal Property Management Regulations

FPR Federal Procurement Regulations

FPRS Federal Property Resource Services (see, GSA)

FPS Finished Product Standards

FQ Forequarter (IMPS)

FR [United States] Federal Register

Fr Fresh (IMPS)

FRAB Financial Reviews and Analysis Branch

FRB Federal Reserve Bank

FRB/ACH Federal Reserve Bank/Automated ClearingHouse

FRC Federal Records Center


FRN Federal Register Notice

FRS Federal Relay Service

Frz Frozen (IMPS)

FS Food Safety [category] (HIMP); Forest Service

FSA Food Safety Assessment; Flexible Spending Account; Farm Service Agency

FSAB Federal-State Audit Branch

FSAFEDS Flexible Spending Accounts for FEDeral employeeS

FSB Fiscal Service Branch

FSC Federal Supply Classification

FSCIP Federal-State Cooperative Inspection Program (Talmadge/Aiken)

FSDZ Food Safety Discovery Zone

FSES Food Safety Education Staff

FSHS Field Safety and Health Specialist

FSIC Food Safety Information Center

FSIP Federal Service Impasse Panel

FSIS Food Safety and Inspection Service

FSJO Food Safety Jobs On-line

FSL Field Service Laboratory

FSLMRS Federal Service Labor Management Relations Statute

FSNS Food Safety Net Services (contract laboratory)

FSQS Food Safety and Quality Service (former name of the FSIS before 1981)

FSO Foreign Service Officer

FSR Fleet Service Representative

FSRB Fiscal Services and Review Branch

FSRE Food Safety Regulatory Essentials

FSRS Federal-State Relations Staff

FSS Food Safety Standard; Federal Supply Schedule

FSWG [the President’s] Food Safety Working Group

ft foot; feet


FT Full-Time [tour of duty]

FTB Frequent Traveler’s Benefits

FTC Federal Trade Commission

FTCA Federal Tort Claims Act

FTD Federal Travel Directory

FTE Full-Time Equivalent

FTIS Foreign Travel Information System

FTM Fluid Thioglycollate Medium

FTP Failure To Present [product(s)]

FTR Federal Travel Regulations

FTS Federal Telecommunications System

FTS2000 Federal Telecommunications System 2000

FTTA Federal Technology Transfer Act

FTU Foreign Travel Unit (FAS)

F-value D-value of an organism at 250F multiplied by desired log reduction

FVPC Foreign Visitor Program Coordinator

FWFA Federal Workforce Flexibility Act

FWS Federal Wage System; Federal Wage Service

FY Fiscal Year

FYI For Your Information

GG G Grade; Government; eGg [products] (establishment type)

G1 eGgs [first shift]

G2 eGgs [second shift]

g gram

GAD Gather, Assess, and Determine (information assessment methodology)

GAL Global Address List

gal gallon[s]

GAMS Grants and Agreements Management Staff


GAO [United States] Government Accountability Office; General Accounting

Office

GB Ground Beef; GiBraltar; Great Britain

GBL Government Bill of Lading

GC General Counsel

GCP Good Commercial Practice

GDIT General Dynamics Information Technology

GDL Glucono Delta-Lactone

GFA Government-Furnished Automobile

GFI Grant of Federal Inspection

GFO Government-Furnished Office

GFSI Global Food Safety Initiative

GI GastroIntestinal

GICCT Government Issued Charge Card for Travel

GINA Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (2008)

GIPSA Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration

GIT GastroIntestinal Tract

GL GaLlon[s]

GLA General Ledger Adjustment

GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender

GLEAC Gay and Lesbian Employee Advisory Council

GM General Schedule employees in the Performance Management and

Recognition System; General Merit (formerly, PMRS); General Manager

gm Gram[s]

GMP Good Manufacturing Practice

GMT Greenwich Mean Time

GNA Guide Not Applicable (decision)

GOA Government of Austria; Gulf Of Alaska; Government of Argentina;

Guarantee of Analysis

GOE Government Owned Equipment

GOI Grant Of Inspection

GoLearn Government on-line Learning [Center]


GORP Get Odometer Reading from the Pump

GOV Government Owned Vehicle

Gph gallons per hour

Gpm gallons per minute

GPO [United States] Government Printing Office

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

GPS Global Positioning System

GR General Requirement[s]

GRAS Generally Regarded As Safe

GRN Generally Regarded [As Safe] Notice [number]

Grnd Ground (IMPS)

GRT GRanT [of inspection]

GS General Schedule [pay plan]; Grade and Series; [USDA] Graduate School;

Glucose Syrup

GSA Government Services Administration

GSBCA General Services Board of Contract Appeals

GSD General Services Division

GTAW Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (also, Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) [welding])

GTR Government Transportation Request

GTSI Government Technology Services, Incorporated (IT contractor)

GVTS GoVernment Transportation System

GWCC George Washington Carver Center

HH h hour[s]

H2O2 Hydrogen perOxide

HA Hazard Analysis

HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (1997)

HACU Hispanic Association of College/University

HAT Humane Activities Tracking (database)

HATS Humane-handling Activities Tracking System (database)


HAV Hazard Analysis Verification

HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities

HC HACCP Compliance (sampling project code)

HCAD Head of Contracting Activity Designee

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration

HCG [Meat and Poultry] Hazards and Controls Guide

HCP Human Capital Policy; Hazard Communication Program

HCS Hazard Communication Standard

HD HunDred

HEC Hazard Evaluation Report

HEDP 1-HydroxyEthylidene-1,1-DiPhosphonic acid

HEI High-End Instrumentation [grant]; Healthy Eating Index

HEW [Department of] Health, Education, and Welfare (former name of, HHS)

HFAC Humane Farm Animal Care

HHEB Health Hazard Evaluation Board

HHEC Humane Handling Enforcement Coordinator

HHG HouseHold Goods

HHS [Department of] Health and Human Services (prior to 1979, HEW)

HHSD Human Health Sciences Division

HHT House Hunting Trip

HIKE Humane Interactive Knowledge Exchange (web-based FSIS service)

HIMP HACCP-Based Inspection Models Pilot/Project (experimental in-plant

inspection system)

HIPAA Health Information Portability and Accountability Act

HIT [Medicare] Hospital Insurance Tax; Health Information Technology

HMIS Hazardous Materials Identification System (MSDS)

HMSA Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (1958; amended 1978)

HNIS Human Nutrition Information Service

H/O Heel Out (IMPS)

HOP Hours of OPeration


HPAI Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

HPNAI Highly Pathogenic Notifiable Avian Influenza

HPP High Pressure Pasteurization; High Pressure Processing

HPRL High Priority Requirement List

HQ HeadQuarters; HindQuarter (IMPS)

hr hour[s]

HR Human Resources

HRA Human Resources Assistant

HRD Human Resources Division

HRFO Human Resources Field Office

HRI Hotels, Restaurants, and Institutions

HRO Human Resources Operations

HRP Human Resources Policy

HRSO Human Resources Servicing Offices

HS Handling Statement (labeling)

HSI Hispanic-Serving Institution

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

HSPD12 Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12

HTML HyperText Markup Language

.htm hypertext markup [language] (file extension)

HTST High-Temperature Short-Time (liquid egg pasteurizer)

HUBZone Historically Underutilized Business Zone

HUS Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

HWC Hazardous Waste Cleanup

Hz Hertz

II

I Identification [house]; Inedible [fats processing] (establishment type); Import

(establishment type)

IA Interagency Agreement; Information Assurance


IACET International Association for Continuing Education and Training

IAD Information Assurance Division

IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer (MSDS)

IAS Import Analysis Staff; Integrated Acquisition System

IATA International Air Transportation Association

IATP Investigator Advanced Training Program

IATS Import Alert Tracking System

IAW In Accordance With

IB Investigation Branch

IBA Individually Billed Account

IBC Investigation Branch Chief

IBM International Business Machines, [Corporation]

IC Incident Commander

ICAD Internal Control and Audit Division

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization (MSDS)

ICB Internal Communications Board; Information Collection Budget

ICC Interagency Coordination Committee; Interstate Commerce Commission

ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement

ICS Incident Command System; Internal Control[s] Staff; In-Commerce System;

In-Commerce Surveillance [system]

ICTAP Interagency Career Transitions Assistance Plan

ID IDentification; IDentification house; Inside Diameter; IDentification

[service]; Identification [security]

IDAuth Identification and Authorization

IDLH Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (MSDS)

IDO Informal Deciding Official

IDP Incidental Duty Point; Individual Development Plan

IDPS Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems

IDR In-Depth Review[er]

IDV In-Depth Verification [review]

I/E Import/Export


i.e. that is (to say) [from the Latin, id est]

IEDM Industrial Engineering and Data Management [Division]

IEF IsoElectric Focusing

IEPS Import/Export Program Staff

IES International Equivalence Staff; Investigative and Enforcement Services

IFANCA Islamic Food And Nutrition Council of America

IFB Insufficient Factual Basis (decision)

IFI Import Facility Inspector

IFO Import Field Office

IFSS Integrating the Food Safety System

IGCE Independent Government Cost Estimate

IH Industrial Hygiene; Industrial Hygienist

I&I Impact and Implementation

IIC Inspector-In-Charge

IICWG Injury and Illness Compensation Work Group

IID Import Inspection Division

IIT Incident Investigation Team

IKE Information and Knowledge Exchange (web-based FSIS service)

ILA Information and Legislative Affairs

ILM Internal Laboratory Number (LEARN)

IMAB Information Management and Analysis Branch

IM Individual Muscle; Instant Messaging

IMB Infrastructure Management Branch

IMDD Inspection Methods Development Division

IMO International Maritime Organization

IMPROVEST® propriatary agent used in the immunological castration of boar hogs

IMPS Institutional Meat Purchasing Specifications

IMVRTE Import Microbiological Verification [Testing]—Ready-To-Eat

in3 cubic inch[es]


INH INHumane [treatment/slaughter]

In rem [lawsuit directed towards a piece of property] (Latin, against a thing)

INS Incident of National Significance

INSP’D INSPecteD

INT INTimidation [/Assault]

INTCONT INTensified CONTact (verification testing)

INTCONT_SA INTensified CONTact Salmonella (PHIS sample management)

INTENV_LM INTensified ENVironmental Listeria monocytogenes (PHIS sampling code)

INTENV_SA INTensified ENVironmental SAlmonella (PHIS sampling code)

INTENVR INTensified ENViRonmental (verification testing)

INTPROD INTensified PRODuct (verification testing)

IO Inspection Operations

IOBW Inside-Outside Bird Wash [machine]; Inside/Outside Bird Washer

IOD Infrastructure Operations Division

IOS International Organization of Standardization

IP Inflammatory Process; International Programs; Islamic Poultry (PHIS)

IPA Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment; Intergovernmental Personnel Act

IPAC Intergovernmental Payment and Collection

IPD International Policy Division

IPE Inspection Program Employee

IPP Inspection Program Personnel; In-Plant Personnel (FSIS)

IPPS In-Plant Performance System

IPS International Policy Staff; Iron Pipe Straight [Thread]

IPSC Indirect Program Support Cost

IPsec Internet Protocol security

IPv Internet Protocol version

IQF Individually Quick Frozen

IR Incident Report; Invention Report; Internal Report; Inspection Result (PHIS)

IRC Indirect Research Cost; Import Recall Coordinator


IRM Information Resources Management

IRMSC Information Resources Management Steering Committee

IRS Internal Revenue Service

IRT International Review Team

IS Ingredients Statement (labeling); Information Staff; Interstate Shipping

[Program]

ISA Information Security Awareness

ISG Inspection System Guide

ISISR Iraq Stabilization and Insurgency Sanctions Regulations

ISLO Import Surveillance Liaison Officer

ISO International Organization for Standardization [from the Greek, isos]

ISP Inspection System Procedure (PBIS); Isolated Soy Protein

ISS Information Systems Security

ISSB Information Systems Security Branch

ISSP Information Systems Security Program

ISSPM Information System Security Project/Program Manager

ISTD Information Systems and Technology Division

IT Information Technology

ITDS International Trade Data System

ITP Individual Training Plan

ITS Information Technology Service; Information Technology Specialist

IU Inspection Unit; International Unit

IVIS International Veterinary Information Service

IVT Intensified Verification Testing; Intensified Verification Training

JJ JAN Job Accommodation Network [of the Department of Labor]

JAWS Job Access With Speech

JCP Joint Committee on Printing

JFO Joint Field Office

JO Judicial Officer


.jpg Joint Photographic [Experts] Group; also, JPEG (file extension)

KK k kilo- [1000]

kg kilogram[s] (2.2046 avoirdupois pounds)

kGy kiloGray (irradiation dose unit)

kHz kiloHertz

KIS™ Kidney Inhibition Swab [test]™

KISS Keep-It-Simple-Sampler (microbiological sampling)

KOA Kosher Overseers of America

KP Kosher [uneviscerated] Poultry (PHIS)

kPa kiloPascal [metric unit of pressure]

KSA Knowledge, Skill, and Ability [statement]

KYF2 Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

LL L Liquid (eggs); Liter

L. Listeria

l Liter[s]

L/A Letter of Authorization

LADP Leadership Assessment Development Program

LAIE Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer

LAN Local Area Network

LAO Location Administrative Officer

LAPC Location Agency Program Coordinator; Local Agency Program Coodinator

LASER Lincoln Advanced Science Engineering Reinforcement [Program]

LAT Location Administrative Technician

lb pound[s] (from a Germanization of the Latin, libra pondo = 0.4535 kilograms)

LBF Pound[s]-Force [from a Germanization of the Latin, libra pondo]

LC Location Coordinator

LC50 Lethal Concentration 50[%] (MSDS)


LCDR Lieutenant CommanDeR (OPHS)

LCL Lower Control Limit (microbiological sampling)

LCPS Labeling and Consumer Protection Staff

LD Laboratory Director

LD50 Lethal Dose 50[%] (MSDS)

LDLo Lethal Dose Low (MSDS)

LEAD Leadership for the Employment of Americans with Disabilities

LEARN Laboratory Electronic Application for Results Notification

LEL Lower Explosive Limit (MSDS)

LERB Labor Employee Relations Branch

LERD Labor and Employee Relations Division (see, ERB)

L&ERD Labor and Employee Relations Division

LEWW Liquid Egg Whites Whipping

LFTB Lean Finely Textured Beef

LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

LIMS Laboratory Information Management System

LIS Laboratory Information System

LITB Laboratory Information Technology Branch

LL Location Leader

LLC Limited Liability Company

LM Listeria monocytogenes

Lm Listeria monocytogenes

LMA Labor Management Agreement

LMR Labor Management Relations

LMRS Labor Management Relations Staff

LMS Learning Management System (AgLearn)

LOAFL Lowest Observable Adverse eFfect Level

LOC Letter Of Concern; Letter Of Credit; LOCations

LOD Limit Of Detection; Letter Of Deferral [of further enforcement action]


LOG Letter Of Guarantee

log logarithm [logarithm of x to the base, b, is written logb(x) so that log10(1000) = 3]

log10 [base] 10 logarithm [1 log10 = 10; 2 log10 = 100; etc.] (pathogen reduction/growth)

LOI Letter Of Information

LOTO LockOut-TagOut

LOTS Location Obligation Tracking System

LOW Letter Of Warning

LPAI Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza

LPDD Labeling Policy and Delivery Division

LPSNC List of Proprietary Substances and Nonfood Compounds

LPSNCB List of Proprietary Substances and Nonfood Compounds Book

LQAD Laboratory Quality Assurance Division

LR Labor Relations

LRA Local Registration Authority; Licensed Registration Agent

LRP

Livestock Risk Protection; Local and Regional Procurement [Pilot Project];

Legally Responsible Person; Long-Range Plan; Loan Repayment Program

[for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds]; Labor Relations Press®

LRP Location Radiation Protection Officer

LS Livestock and Seed [Division/Program]; Legislative Staff; Lead Scientist

LSAS Label Submission Approval System

LSDMS Laboratory Sampling and Data Management Staff

LSO Location Safety Officer

LSP Livestock and Seed Program

LT Lieutenant (OPHS)

LT30 Less Than 30 [months of age]

LTD Less Than Daily [sanitation]

LTJG LieutenanT Junior Grade

LTP [Voluntary] Leave Transfer Program

LTR Low-Temperature Rendering/Rendered

LTRB Low-Temperature Rendered Beef


LVP Label Verification Procedures

LWOP Leave WithOut Pay

MM

M [red] Meat (slaughter establishment type); [upper limit of] Marginal [range]

(sampling)

M. muscle [from the Latin, musculus]; Mycoplasma

m [lower limit of] marginal [range] (sampling); milli- [1/1,000]

MA MAintenance; Management Analyst; Mission Assignment

mA/cm2 milliAmpere[s] per square centimeter [current density]

MADB Microbiology Analysis and Data Branch

MAEA Mission Area Ethics Advisor

MAI Member of the Appraisal Institute

MAM Master of Avian Medicine

MAN WT MANual WeighT (weights and measures)

MAV Maximum Allowable Variance/Variation (weights and measures)

M.bovis Bovine Mycobacteriosis

M-Brand cattle branded with the letter “M” indicating they originate from Mexico

MC Melanine Compounds

MCC Maintenance Control Center

MCLC MicroComputer Learning Center

MCO Management Control Officer

MCR Management Control Review

MCS Management Control System

MCT Market Cattle Testing

MD Microbiology Division; Management Directive

MD0 minimum MoDerate (grading)

MDC Mechanically Deboned Chicken

MDM Mechanically Deboned Meat

MDP Multiple Duty Points; Mechanically Deboned Poultry


MDT Mechanically Deboned Turkey

ME/K Milli-Equivalents per Kilogram (lard peroxide value)

MFF% Moisture Fat Free Percentage

mg milligram[s]

MGA MelenGestrol Acetate

MGC Meat Grading and Certification [Branch]

Mgt Management

MHRS Machinery HouRS; Man HouRS

MIB Microbiological Issues Branch

MICRO MICRObiology (PHIS sample management)

MIG Mercury In Glass [thermometer]

M&IE Meals & Incidental Expenses

mil one thousandth [0.001] of an inch

MIP Meat Inspection Program

MIT Maximum Internal Temperature

MIU Moisture, Impurities, Unsaponifiable [matter]

mL milliLiter(s)

MM Mail Manager

m/M sampling statistical process control technique

mmHg millimeter[s] Mercury [from the Latin, hydrargyrum]

MNB Market News Branch

MOA Memorandum Of Agreement (also, MOU)

MOI Memorandum Of Interview

MOR Method Of Reimbursement (GovTrip)

MOSS Microsoft Office SharePoint Services

MOU Memorandum Of Understanding (also, MOA)

MP Meat and Poultry (forms); Media Protection

M/P Meat/Poultry (establishment type)

MPCM Microbial Pathogen Computer Modeling


MPFS Moisture; Protein, Fat, and Salt (accredited laboratory program type)

MPG Moving Pictures [Expert] Group (computer file extension)

MPI Meat and Poultry Inspection

MPIDG Meat Products Inspector Development Guide

MPIO Meat and Poultry Inspection Operations

MRM Multi-Residue Method

MRMD Mail and Reproduction Management Division

MPN Most Probable Number (sampling statistical analysis)

MPR Moisture-Protein Ratio (labeling)

M/Pr Moisture to Protein [ratio]

MRO Medical Review Officer

MRP Marketing and Regulatory Programs

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

MS Mechanically Separated [species]; Microsoft®; Malt Syrup

MSA Mid-South Area

MS(S) Mechanically Separated (Specie)

MSB Mechanically Separated Beef

MSC Mechanically Separated Chicken

MSD Mitigation Strategies Database

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSG MonoSodium Glutamate

MSM Mechanically Separated Meat

MSO Managed Service Office

MSP Mechanically Separated Poultry

MSPB Merit Systems Protection Board

MSS Mechanically Separated Specie[s]

MST Mechanically Separated Turkey

MT Microbiological Testing [project/program code/number]

MT05 E. coli O157:H7 routine testing of raw ground beef at retail project code


MT06 E. coli O157:H7 follow-up testing of raw ground beef at retail project code

MT08 E. coli O157:H7 routine testing of imported raw ground beef project code

MT43 E. coli O157:H7 routine testing of raw ground beef in Federal

establishments sampling code

MT43S Salmonella raw, non-intact meat sampling project code

MT44 E. coli O157:H7 follow-up testing of raw ground beef product at Federal

establishments follow-up sampling code in response to an MT43 positive result

MT44T E. coli O157:H7 follow-up testing of raw ground beef product or component at Federal

establishments, collected outside of projects MT44 and MT55, project code

MT50 E. coli O157:H7 domestic raw beef manufacturing trimmings project code

MT51 E. coli O157:H7 routine testing of imported beef manufacturing

trimmings and components project code

MT52 E. coli O157:H7 testing of raw beef manufacturer trimmings or components

from originating slaughter suppliers based on MT43 positive result project code

MT53 E. coli O157:H7 follow-up testing after MT50, MT52, or MT 54 positive

result project code

MT54 E. coli O157:H7 sampling of raw, beef components other than trim

product project code

MT55 E. coli O157:H7 routine testing of beef bench trim sampling program code

MTM Methods-Time Measurement

MU Management Unit

MUFA MonoUnsaturated Fatty Acid

MULTI MULTIple [samples] (PHIS sample management)

MWA MidWest Area

MWL MidWestern Laboratory

MWPS MidWest Planning Service

MWSD Mediation and Work/Life Services Division

NN N Number; Number [of entries in a population data set]; NOIE (AER report type)

n number [of samples tested] (stastical process control); number [of entries in a

sample data set]

n number [of scale divisions] (weights and measures)

N60 E. coli O157:H7 sampling collection procedure for raw beef products

N/A Not Applicable; Not Available

N.A. Not Applicable; Not Available

Na sodium [from the Latin, natrium]


NAA North Atlantic Area

NACI National Agency Check and Inquiry

NaCl sodium Chloride [from the Latin, natrium; common name, salt]

NACMCF National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Food

NACMPI National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection

NACOSP National Advisory Council for Office Support Professionals

NAD Non-Ambulatory/Disabled [livestock]; National Advertising Division;

National Appeals Division

NADC National Animal Disease Center

NAFV National Association of Federal Veterinarians

NAHM Native American Heritage Month

NAI Notifiable Avian Influenza

NAL National Agricultural Library; sodium [from the Latin, natrium] Lactate

NAMP National Association of Meat Processors

NARA National Archives and Records Administration

NARDAC National Regional Date Automation Center

NARMS National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System

NARS National Archive and Records Service

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NASDA National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

NASPDP Newly Appointed Scientist Professional Development Program

NASS National Agriculture Statistics Service

NATO North American Treaty Organization

NB Networking Branch

NBACC National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center

NBCAM National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

NBIS National Biosurveillance Information System

NBS National Bureau of Standards

NC Non-Compliance

NCAUR National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research


NCC National Chicken Council

NCCR National Council of Chain Restaurants

NCD Normal Commuting Distance

NCR National Capitol Region

NCWM National Council on Weights and Measures

ND Night Differential

NDB [USDA National] Nutrient DataBase [for Standard Reference]

NDG Noncompliance Determination Guide

NDS New Duty Station

Neg Negative

NELS NEw Line Speed (line system)

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

Net Wt Net Weight

NF Nutrition Facts (labeling)

NFC National Finance Center

NFCA Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement

NFDM NonFat Dry Milk

NFCS Non-Food Contact Surface

NFCSO Non-Food Contact Surface [indicating] Organism

NFPA National Fire Protection Association (MSDS)

NFSEM National Food Safety Education Month

NGP Negotiated Grievance Procedure

NHTC Non-Hormone Treated Cattle

NIC Network Interface Card

NIFA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

NIH National Institutes of Health

NIMS National Incident Management Systems

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (MSDS)

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology


NIST SP National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication

NITC National Information Technology Center

NJC National Joint Council [of Food Inspection Locals]

NJCFIL National Joint Council of Food Inspector Locals (AFGE)

NLE National Level Exercise

NLEA Nutrition Labeling and Education Act

NLM National Laboratory of Medicine

NM Nautical Mile (1.151 miles; 1.852 kilometers)

NNM National Nutrition Month

No number [from the Latin, numero]

NO2- Nitrite

NO3- Nitrate

NOA Notice Of Award (eOPF)

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOC Not Otherwise Classified; National Operations Center

NOCONTRACT NOt [Releasable to] CONTRACTors [or Consultants]

NOD Notice Of Deferral

No FEAR Notification [and] Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation [Act]

NOI Notice Of Ineligibility

NOIE Notice Of Intended Enforcement [Action]

NOL No Objection Letter

NOP [USDA] National Organic Program (see, SYMBOLS)

NOR Not Otherwise Regulated (MSDS)

NOFORN NO FOReign Nationals

NOS Notice Of Suspension; Not Otherwise Specified (MSDS)

NOW Notice Of Warning

NP National Program

NPA Northern Plains Area

NPASAC Northern Plains Area Secretarial Advisory Council


NPDW National Primary Drinking Water

NPIP National Poultry Improvement Plan

NPL National Program Leader

NPRM Notice of Proposed RuleMaking

NPS National Program Staff

NPT National Pipe Thread

NR Noncompliance Record; Noncompliance Report

NRB National Review Board; Non-Rating Based (eOPF)

NRC National Response Center; Nuclear Regulatory CommissionS

NRCC National Response Coordination Center

NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRE Natural Resources and Environment

NRF National Response Framework

NRI National Research Institute; Non-Routine Incident (AER report type)

NRLTO Not Reasonably Likely To Occur

NROT Non-Reimbursable OverTime

NRP National Residue Program

NRR Noise Reduction Rating

NRRC Northern Resources Research Center

NRS Notice of Reinstatement of Suspension

NRTE Not Ready-To-Eat

NSAID Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug

NSF National Sanitation Foundation; National Science Foundation

NSHA Notice of Suspension Held in Abeyance

NSLP National School Lunch Program

NSP New Supervisor Program

NSS Not Shelf-Stable

NST Nerve Sheath Tumor

nt total number of packages to be opened for tare determination (net weights)


NTAS National Terrorism Advisory System

NTE Not To Exceed

NTEP National Type Evaluation Program (weights and measures)

NTF National Turkey Federation

NTI New Turkey Inspection (line inspection system)

NTIS National Technology Information Service

NTP National Toxicology Program (MSDS)

NTU Nephelometric Turbitity Unit

NTS New Technology Staff

NTTC National Technology Transfer Coordinator

NV No Viscera (poultry inspection)

NVSL National Veterinary Services Laboratories

NW Net Weight

NYD New York Dressed (poultry)

OO OA Office of the Administrator

OAA Office of the Assistant Administrator

OAB Organizational Assurance Branch

OAC Office of Antiboycott Compliance; Office of Adjudication and Compliance

OAE Office of Advocacy and Enterprise

OALJ Office of Administrative Law Judges

OASCR Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

OASDFR Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers

OASDI Old Age and Survivors, Disability and Insurance

OBPA Office of Budget and Program Analysis

OC Office of Communications

OCA Office of the Consumer Advisor

OCE Office of the Chief Economist

OCFO Office of the Chief Financial Officer


OCHCO Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer

OCHRO Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer

OCI Office of Cooperative Interactions

OCIO Office of the Chief Information Officer

OCIP Office of Catfish Inspection Program

OCONUS Outside Conterminous/Continental United States

OCP Other Consumer Protection (PBIS procedures)

OCR Office of Civil Rights

OD Office of the Director; Outside Diameter

ODA Office of Disaster Assistance; Office of Deputy Administrator

ODIFP Office of Data Integration and Food Protection

ODM-AM Office of Debt Management-Administrative Management

ODS Official Duty Station

OE Office of Energy

OEDB Organization and Employee Development Branch

OEL Occupational Exposure Limit

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer; Office of Emergency Management

OEP Occupant Emergency Plan

OES Office of the Executive Secretariat

OF Office of Finance; Optional Form (forms)

O&F [Off ice of] Operations and Finance

OFAC Office of Foreign Assets Control

OFCO Operating Facility Change Order

OFDER Office of Food Defense and Emergency Response

OFLR OFf-Line Reprocessing

OFM Office of Finance and Management

OFO Office of Field Operations

OFR Office of the Federal Register

OFS Office of Food Safety


OFSEP Office of Food Security and Emergency Preparedness

OGC Office of the General Counsel

OGE Office of Government Ethics

OGPA Office of Governmental and Public Affairs

OHCM Office of Human Capital Management

OHMP Occupational Health Maintenance Program

OHR Office of Human Resources

OHRM Office of Human Resource Management

OHSEC Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Coordination

OI Office of Investigation; Outbreak of Illness [Investigation] (AER report type)

OIA Office of International Affairs

OIC Officer-In-Charge

OICD Office of International Cooperation and Development

OIE World Organization for Animal Health (from French, Office International

des Epizooties)

OIG Office of Inspector General

OIRM Office of Information Resources Management

OJT On-the-Job Training

OK Labs Organized Kashruth Laboratories

OLOL OnLine/OffLine

OLR On-Line Reprocessing

OM Office of Management

OMB Office of Management and Budgets

OO Office of Operations

OOEET Office of Outreach, Employee Education, and Training

OON Originating Office Number

OOP Order Of Predominance (labeling)

OP Office of Personnel

OPA Office of Public Affairs

OPACE Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Education


OPAEO Office of Public Affairs, Education, and Outreach

OPEDA Organization of Professional Employees of the [U.S.] Department of

Agriculture

OPEER Office of Program Evaluation, Enforcement, and Review

OPF Official Personnel Folder

OPHS Office of Public Health Science

OPI Office of Public Information; Office of Public Inquiry; Office of Primary

Interest

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OPPD Office of Policy and Program Development

OPPDE Office of Policy, Program Development, and Evaluation

OPPED Office of Policy, Program, and Employee Development

OPPM Office of Procurement and Property Management

OPPS Out-of-Plant Performance System

ORCON Dissemination and Extraction of Information Controlled by Originator

ORP Oxidation-Reduction Potential

ORT Office of Resources and Technology

OSC Office of Special Counsel

OSDBU Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

OSEC Office of the SECretary

OSEL Outbreak Section Eastern Laboratory

OSH Occupational Safety and Health [Act] (1970)

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Agency

OSHP Occupational Safety and Health Program

OSHS Occupational Safety and Health Specialist

OSQR Office of Scientific Quality Review

OT OverTime; Office of Transportation

OTP Other Than Permanent

OTT Ofice of Technology Transfer

OWCP Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

OX OXidizer (MSDS)


oz ounce[s] [from the Latin, onza]

PP P Plant; Poultry (establishment type); Processing (establishment type)

P2P Peer-To-Peer

PA Program Analyst; Patent Advisor; Privacy Act; Prohibited Act (AER report type)

PAA PeroxyAcetic Acid; Program Analyst Assistant

PAD Policy Analysis Division

PAEA Program Area Ethics Advisor

PAIS Property Accounting Information System

PAO Procurement Assistance Officer

PAS Program Analysis Staff

PASD Planning, Architecture, and Security Division

Past Pasteurized

PATH PATHology (PHIS sample management)

PB Publications Branch

PBIS Performance-Based Inspection System

PC Personal Computer

Pc Piece (IMPS)

PCA Physicians Comparability Allowance

PCB PolyChlorinated Biphenyl (accredited laboratory program type)

PCCSB Personal Computer Configuration and Support Branch

pc-DIALS personal computer – Document Issuance and Automated Library System

(retired computer application)

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCMI President’s Counsel on Management Improvement

PCMS Purchasing Card Management System

PCP Planned Compliance Program; Phencyclidine [1-(1 phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine]

PCPB Performance and Compensation Policy Branch

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PCS Permanent Change of Station


PCSCP President’s Council on Service and Civil Participation

pct percentage

PD Personnel Division; Position Description; Per Diem [allowance]; PaD

(Beltsville Service Center)

PDA Personal Data Assistant

PDBFT Partially Defatted Beef Fatty Tissue

PDCAAS Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (protein quality evaluation)

PDCB Partially Defatted Chopped Beef

PDCP Partially Defatted Chopped Poultry

PDD Policy Development Division; Program Development Division

PDEW Pan-Dried Egg Whites

PDF Portable Document Format

.pdf portable document format (file extension)

PGDS Printing, Graphics, and Distribution Section

PDI Pre-Decisional Involvement

PDL Primary Duty Location

PDP Principal Display Panel (labeling); Pesticide Data Program

PDPFT Partially Defatted Poultry Fatty Tissue

PDR Process Deficiency Report (Finished Product Standards)

PDRAM Program Direction Resource Allocation Memo

PDS Permanent Duty Station; Protective Distribution Systems

PDSD Personnel and Document Security Division

PE Physical and Environmental [Protection]

PEA Progressive Enforcement Action

PEIS Program Evaluation and Improvement Staff

PEL Permissible Exposure Limit (MSDS)

PELS Permissible Exposure LimitS [Regulations]

PEPRLab Pasteurized Egg Products Recognized Laboratory [Program]

PER Protein Efficiency Ratio (1919)

PERB Performance, Evaluation, and Recognition Branch


PESB Program Evaluation and Safety Branch

PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PFEU Pork [intended] For [export to] the European Union

PFF Protein Fat-Free

PFGE Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (sampling)

PFT Permanent Full-Time

PFSE Partnership for Food Safety Education

pfu plaque forming unit

PFW Projected Finished Weight

PGOP Poultry Grower or Other Person

pH power/potential/Potenz Hydrogen [ion concentration]

PH Public Health

PhD Doctor of Philosophy

PHELS Public Health and Epidemiology Liaison

PHHRS Public Health Human Resources System

PHIS Public Health Information System

PHLIS Public Health Laboratory Information System

PHR Personal Health Record[s]

PHS [United States] Public Health Service

PHV Public Health Veterinarian

PI Personal Identity; Principal Investigator

PIA Privacy Impact Assessment

PIADC Plum Island Animal Disease Center

PIC Process In Control

PID Policy Issuances Division

PIE Personal Inspection Equipment

PII Personally Identifiable Identification

PIN Personal Identification Number; Payee Identification Number

PINQ Personnel INQuiry [System]


PIP Performance Improvement Plan (performance appraisal); Planned

Improvement Plan (human resources); Plant Improvement Plan

PIT Policy Information Technology

PIV Personal Identity Verification

PKG PacKaGe

pkg package

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PL Public Law

P.L. Public Law

PLAIN Plain Language Action and Information Network

Pld Peeled (IMPS)

PLE Post-Lethality Exposed

PM Post-Mortem; Program Management; Policy Memorandum

p/m part[s] per million

PMAR Personnel Management Assistance Review

PMAT Performance Measurement and Analysis Team

PMB Procurement Management Branch; Property Management Branch; Paperwork

Management Branch

PMF Presidential Management Fellows

PMI Personnel Misconduct Investigator

PMO Project Management Office; Property Management Officer

PMP Pest Management Program; Pathogen Modeling Program; Project

Management Professional

PMRR Precious Metals Recovery Representative

PMRS Performance Management Recognition System (see, GM)

PMS Payment Management System; Pantone Matching System

PN Product Name (labeling)

PNS Peripheral Nervous System

PO Purchase Order (Beltville Service Center)

POA Privately Owned Automobile

POA&M Plan Of Actions and Milestones

POB Personnel Operations Branch


POC Point Of Contact

POD Policy Operations Division; Post Of Duty

POE [United States] Port Of Entry

POP Point Of Purchase

Portn Portion (IMPS)

Pos Positive

POS Processing Operations Staff

POV Privately Owned Vehicle

PP Pay Period

P&P Policies and Procedures

pp pages

p page

ppb part[s] per billion

PPBB Policy, Planning, and Budget Branch (AISD)

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

pph part[s] per hundred

PPIA Poultry Products Inspection Act (1957)

PPIDG Poultry Products Inspector Development Guide

ppm part[s] per million [1 ppm = 1 mg/L = 0.0001%]

PPMS Personal Property Management Section

PPO Project Plan Outline

PPPD Personnel Policy and Partnership Division

PPPM Payroll/Personnel Processing Manual

PPS Personal Property Section

PPSB Personnel Policy and Systems Branch

Ppt Powerpoint (Microsoft®

software)

ppt part[s] per trillion

ppth part[s] per thousand

.ppt [Microsoft®] PowerPoint

™ (file extension)


PQC Partial Quality Control

PR Pathogen Reduction; Plant Reject; PreRequisite [program]; Puerto Rico

pr pair

PRB Performance Review Board

PRC [the] People’s Republic of China

pre-op pre-operational [inspection]

PREP Pathogen Reduction Enforcement Program

PRP Pre-Requisite Program

PRT Performance Rating Tool

Prthse Porterhouse (IMPS)

PS Procedure Schedule

PSA Packers and Stockyards Administration; Poultry Science Association

PSB Program Services Branch

P’S’D PaSseD

PSE Pale, Soft, and Exudative [pork]

PSEP Physical Security and Emergency Preparedness Program

psi pounds per square inch

PSIT Poultry Slaughter Inspector Training

PSLF Public Service Loan Forgiveness [Program]

PSMA Pre-Scripted Mission Assignment

PSO Purchaser Specified Option

PSP Position Staffing Plan

PSRW Public Service Recognition Week

PSS Porcine Stress Syndrome (see, PSE)

PST Private Sector Temporary

PT Part-Time [tour of duty]

pt Pint[s]

PTC Program Training Committee

PTO Patent and Trademark Office


PUB PUBlication

PUFA PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acid

PVC PolyVinyl Chloride

PVP Process Verified Program

PVPA Plant Variety Protection Act

PVPC Plant Variety Protection Certificate

PWA Pacific West Area

PY PoultrY (forms)

PYG Preliminary Yield Grade

PYV Present Your Views

QQ

QA Quality Assurance

Q&A Question and Answer

QAD Quality Assurance Division

QAP Quality Assurance Provision[s]

QC Quality Control

QCP Quality Control Program

QER Quarterly Enforcement Report

Q Fever Query Fever

QLE Qualifying Life Event (benefits)

Qnaire Questionnaire

QR Quick Response [code]

QS Quick Service

QSI Quality Step Increase

QSO Quality Systems Operations

qt quart

QWLD Quality of Work Life Division

RR R Reinstatement (AER report type)


RA Research Associate; Reimbursable Agreement; Risk Assessment; Reasonable

Accommodation

R&A Review and Assessment [Program]

RACC Reference Amount Customarily Consumed (labeling)

racol registered and authorized company logo (see, SYMBOLS)

RAD Radiation Absorbed Dose

Radura derived from radurization, a portmanteau combining "radiation" with

"durus," Latin for hard, lasting (see, SYMBOLS)

RAP Research Associate Program; Research Apprenticeship Program

RARD Risk Assessment and Residue Division

RB Rating Based (eOPF)

RBA Referral Bonus Award

RBI Risk-Based Inspection

RBIS Risk-Based Inspection System

RBO Relationship By Objectives [agreement]

RC Rehabilitation Counselor

Rc Range [of net] contents (weights and measures)

RCA Regulatory Control Action

RCP Raw Chicken Parts

RCPBS Raw Chicken Parts Baseline Survey

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RD Rural Development; Regional Director

RDA Recommended Daily Allowance (nutrition)

RDAD Regulations Development and Analysis Division

RDB Resource DataBase

RDDS Regulations and Directives Development Staff

RDI Reference Daily Intake (nutrition)

Re Rejection [number] (minimum number of defects permitted in a sample to

consider a lot as failing a specific Acceptable Quality Limit)

R&E Research and Experimentation

REA Rural Electrification Administration

REC Recall Effectiveness Check (AER report type)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radurization


Rec’d Received

REE Research, Education, and Economics

REEO Research, Education and Extension Office

REG WRI REGular [cycle] Within-Range Increase (eOPF)

REL Recommended Exposure Limit

Rev. Revision

RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act

RFC Request For Contract; Recommended for Further Consideration; Request For

Change

RFP Request For Proposal

RG Records Group

RGB Raw Ground Beef

RGBC Raw Ground Beef Components

RGEG Research Grade Evaluation Guide

RH Relative Humidity

RI Restricted Ingredient

RICOH Ricoh® [Global Scan system]

RID Retiree IDentification [card]

RIF Reduction-In-Force

RIFO Regional Import Field Office

RIFS Regional Import Field Supervisor

RIG Regional Inspector General

RIMD Risk and Innovations Management Division

RIS Ratite Inspection System; Resource Information System

RIT Relocation Income Tax

Rk Recordkeeping (SSOP/HACCP component)

RL Research Leader

RLm [routine] Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes (sampling)

RLMCONT [routine] Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes [direct] CONTact [surface]

RLMENVC [routine] Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes ENVionmental Composite

[testing]


RLMENVR [routine] Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes ENViRonmental [testing]

RLMPROD [routine] Risk-based Listeria monocytogenes PRODuct [testing]

RLTO Reasonably Likely To Occur (hazard analysis)

RM Regional Manager; Residue Monitoring (sampling code)

R&M Repair and Maintenance

rm ream (500 paper sheets)

RMA Resource Management Analyst; Risk Management Agency

RMD Recall Management Division

RMO Records Management Officer

RMPS Resources Management and Planning Staff

RMS Resource Management Specialist; Resource Management Staff; Recall Management

Staff

RNA RiboNucleic Acid

RNG Raw, Not Ground

RNR Recall Notification Report

RO Regional Office; Renewal Order

R&O Review and Observation [component] (SSOP/HACCP)

ROB Rules Of Behavior

ROI Report Of Investigation

ROK Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ROP Rules Of Practice

ROS Residue Operations Staff

RP Regulatory Programs; RinderPest; Replacement Position

RPA Research Problem Area

RPEC Research Personnel Evaluation Committee

RPES Research Position Evaluation System

RPHT Regional Public Health Trainer

RPL Reemployment Priority List

RPM Revolution Per Minute

RPP Re-promotion Placement Plan


RPPS Regulations and Petitions Policy Staff

RQ Reportable Quantity (MSDS)

RRCC Regional Response Coordination Center

RS Reporting Section; Rehabilitation Specialist

RSA Research Support Agreement

RSC Radiation Safety Committee

RSP Radiation Safety Program; Relocation Services Program

RSS Radiological/Radiation Safety Staff

Rst Roast (IMPS)

Rst-Rdy Roast-Ready (IMPS)

RSVP Respondez S’il Vous Plait [French, respond if you please]

Rt Range of tare [weights]

RTB Rural Telephone Bank

RTC Ready-To-Cook

RTE Ready-To-Eat

RTE001 RTE sampling program based on establishment risk factors

.rtf rich text format (file extension name)

RuMBA Rural Mobile and Broadband Alliance

RVAL Routine Violators Alert List (residue)

RVIS Residue Violation Information System

RVS Returned Volunteer Services (Peace Corps)

SS

S Slaughter (establishment type); sample standard deviation; Suspension

(AER report type)

S. Salmonella; Staphylococcus

s sample [standard deviation]

SA Secretary’s Announcement (forms); State Agency; Services Acquisition

SAA South Atlantic Area

SAC Special Agent-in-Charge


SAES State Agricultural Experiement Station

SAGARPA

Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and

Food (from Spanish, Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo

Rural, Pesca Y Alimentación)

SAHO State Animal Health Official

SAIC Science Applications International Corporation

SAL SALmonella

SAMS Security Access Management System

SAN Storage Area Network

SAO State Agricultural Offices

SAPP Sodium Acid PyroPhosphate

SAR Situation, Action, Result [methodology]

SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

SAT Standards, Analysis, and Technology [Branch]; Security Awareness and Training

Sat fat Saturated fat

SATO Scheduled Airline Ticket Office

SAVE Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency

SB Savings Bond (forms)

SBA [United States] Small Business Administration

SBG Scored Below Grade

SBO Situation, Behavior, Outcome [methodology]

SBREFA Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (1996)

SBS Sodium BiSulfate

SBU Sensitive But Unclassified

SC Shipping Container; System and Communication [protection]; Salmonella and

Campylobacter (sampling code)

SCA Specific Cooperative Agreement

SCB Service Computation Date

SCBA Self-Contained Breathing Aparatus

SCC Secretary’s Command Center

SCD Service Computation Date


SCEP Student Career Experience Program

SCI Sensitive Compartmented Information

SCO Supervisory Compliance Officer

SCS Soil Conservation Service

SD Science Division; Sunday Differential

SDB Service Delivery Branch

SDL Secondary Duty Location

SDLC Systems Development Life Cycle

SDO Scheduled Day Off

SDPCP Sanitary Dressing and Process Control Procedures

SE Salmonella enteritidis

SEC [Office of the] SECretary

SED Shipper’s Export Declaration

sec. section [also, §]

SEDO Senior Executive Duty Officer

SEIAO Supervisory Enforcement, Investigation, and Analysis Officer

SEL Statement of Earnings and Leave

SELISA Serum Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay

SEP Special Emphasis Program

sep septicemia

SEPM Special Emphasis Program Manager

Serv size Serving size

SES Senior Executive Service

SEU Special Examining Unit

SF Standard Form (forms); Solid Fiberboard (packaging type)

SFCIP State-Federal Cooperative Inspection Program

SFI Supervisory Food Inspector

SFSS Slaughter Food Safety Standard

SFT Supervisory Food Technologist


SGE Special Government Employee

SGEG Supervisory Grade-Evaluation Guide

SHARE Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment [Initiative]

Sh Cut Short Cut (IMPS)

SHEM Safety, Health, and Environmental Management

SHEMB Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Branch

SHEWD Safety, Health, and Employee Welfare Division

SHI Safe Handling Instruction(s) (labeling)

Shld Shoulder (IMPS)

SHMD Safety and Health Management Division

SHRO Servicing Human Resources Office

Sht Shnk Short Shank (IMPS)

SI the modern metric system [from the French, Le Système International

d'Unités]; System and Information [integrity]; Supervisory Investigator

sic intentionally so written [Latin]

SIDG Slaughter Inspector Development Guide

SIEM Surveillance and Investigations Enforcement Methods

SIFT Species Identification Field Test

SIKE Security Information Knowledge Exchange

SIP Salmonella Initiative Program

SIPO Strategic Initiatives Partnerships and Outreach

SIPP Supervisory Inspection Program Personnel

Sirln Sirloin (IMPS)

SIRMO Senior Information Resources Management Official

SIS Streamlined Inspection System

SITC Smuggling Interdiction Trade Compliance

SJ Standard Job [number]

Sknd Skinned (IMPS)

SKU Stock Keeping Unit (pronounced, SKEW)

SL Signature Line (labeling); Senior-Level

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language


S/L Sick Leave

SLA SLightly Abundant (grading)

SLIC Sprayed Lethality In Container

SM Secretary’s Memorandum (forms); Statute Mile (1.000 miles; 1.609

kilometers)

SMG Supervisory Meat Grader

Smk Smoked (IMPS)

SME Subject Matter Expert

SMS Systems Management Server; Sodium MetaSilicate; Space Management

Section

SN Serial Number

S/N Serial Number

SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

S. No Serial number [from the Latin, numero]

SO Safety Officer

S/O Shank Off (IMPS)

SOC Security Operation[s] Center

SOHM Safety and Occupational Health Manager

SOI Subject Of Investigation

SOP Standard Operating Procedureds

SORTS Service Order Reporting, and Tracking System

SOS Slaughter Operations Staff; Sulfa-On-Site (swine testing)

SOTAD State Outreach and Technical Assistance Division

SOTAS State Outreach and Technical Assistance Staff

SOV Statement Of Verification

SOW Statement Of Work

SP Special Publication

Sp Special (IMPS)

sp specie

SPA Southern Plains Area

SPC Statistical Process Control


SPCC Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure [plan]

SPF Sanitation of Processing Facilities (egg products)

SPHV Supervisory Public Health Veterinarian

SPM Shackles Per Minute (poultry line speed)

SPO Servicing Personnel Office

SPP Soy Protein Product

spp species

SPS Sanitation Performance Standards; Sanitary and PhytoSanitary [measures];

Servicing Personnel Specialist

SPSCG Sanitation Performance Standards Compliance Guide

Sq-Cut Square-Cut (IMPS)

sq. ft. square feet

SR Standard Regulations

SRC Shared Research Cost

SRCD Slow Release Chlorine Dioxide

SrCO Senior Compliance Officer

SRM Specified Risk Material

SRMA Supervisory Resource Management Analyst

SRRC Southern Regional Research Center

SS Shelf-Stable; Serving Size (labeling)

SSA Social Security Administration

SSB Service Support Branch

SSBAB Staffing Services, Benefits, and Awards Branch

SSL Secure Socket Layer

SSN Social Security Number

SSOP Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures

SSS Scientific Seminar Series

SST Supervisors Skill Training

ST ScienTific [and Professional pay plan]; Shiga Toxin

S&T Science and Technology


STAR System for Time and Attendance Reporting; Supervisory Tool for

Assessments Results

STC- Swab Test Compliance-

STDEV STandard DEViation

STDEVP Population STandard DEViation

STEC Shiga-Toxin [producing] Escherichia coli

STEL Short-Term Exposure Limit (MSDS)

STEP Student Temporary Employment Program

STEPS System Tracking E. coli O157:H7-Positive Suppliers

STOP Swab Test On Premises (livestock kidney antibiotic residue testing)

STP Standard Temperature and Pressure; Stategic Plan Code

STU III Secure Telephone Unit Third [Generation]

STSS Scientific and Technical Support Staff

stx Shiga toxin [gene]

SULFA SULFonAmides (accredited laboratory program type)

SuWE Sugared Whole Eggs

SuY Sugared Yolks

SVMO Supervisory Veterinary Medical Officer

SVMS Supervisory Veterinary Medical Specialist

SWCD Soil and Water Conservation District

SWE Salted Whole Eggs

SY Scientist Year (category 1 or 4 positions); Salted Yolks

TT T

Tolerance [number] (CUSUM); Total [quality control] (establishment type);

Tier (FSIS Service Desk)

T. Trichinella (parasitic round worm)

t [metric] ton[s] [2204.623 pounds]

T&A Time and Attendance [report]

T/A Talmidge/Aiken [Act/plant] (Federal-State cooperative agreement;

establishment type)

TAC Technical Advisory Committee; Time and Attendance Coordinator


TANUM Travel Authorization NUMber

TARGET Technology Accessible Resources Gives Employment Today

TAS Treasury Account Symbol

TASSB Technology Assessment and Support Services

TAV Travel Authorization Voucher

TB Tubercle Bacillus; TuBerculosis

TBA To Be Announced

TBD To Be Determined

TBHQ Tertiary ButylHydroQuinone (antioxidant food preservative)

TBS To Be Specified

tbsp tablespoon

TBT Technical Barriers to Trade

TC Transaction Code (Time and Attendance report)

T/C Transaction Code (Time and Attendance reports)

TCC Temporary Continuation of Coverage; Tagliabue Closed Cup (MSDS)

TCCB Technical Change Control Board

TCOE Training as a Condition Of Employment

TCR Torts Claim Representative

TCT Travel Comp[ensatory] Time

TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (also, TTY); Training and

Development Division

TDL Temporary Duty Location

TDLo Toxic Dose Lowest [published]

TDP Testing Designated Position

TDY Temporary DutY

TEKTRAN TECHnology TRANsfer [Automated Retrieval System]

Telang Telangectasis

Tender Tenderloin (IMPS)

TEP Technical Evaluation Panel

TERS Travel Expenditure Reporting System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_%28shape%29


Tex-Blend [trade name used for egg products to which a sweetner has been added]

TEWG Training and Education Work Group

TFRS Telecommuting Facility Reimbursement Information Sheet

TFT Temporary Full-Time

TIB Temporary Importation [under] Bond

TIFF Tag/Tagged Image File Format

TIG Tungsten Inert Gas [welding] (also, Gas Tungsten Arc Welding)

TIN Taxpayer Identification Number

TINQ Time INQuiry [System]

TIS Traditional Inspection System (poultry)

TL Team Leader

T/L Team Leader

TLV Threshold Limit Value

TMC Travel Management Center

TNTC Too Numerous To Count (sampling)

T/O Trotter Off (IMPS)

TOB Training Operations Branch

TOC Turkey Osteomyelitis Complex

TOI Type[s] Of Inspection

TOP Treasury Offset Program

TOR Thermal Organic Rinse

TOS Total Organic Solids

tox toxemia

TPC Total Plate Count

TPDS Technology Program Development Staff

TPQ Threshold Planning Quantity (MSDS)

TPS Target Percent in Salaries

TQ Temporary Quarters

TQC Total Quality Control


TQSC Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expense

TR Transportation Request

TRA Trade Readjustment Allowance; Threat and Risk Assessment; TRAde

[associations]

TRC Total Residual Chlorine

TRAI TRAining Information [System]

TRECS Tracking Recall Effectiveness Checks System

TREL Temporary RELief

Trmd Trimmed (IMPS)

TRS Technical Requirements Schedule

TRVL TRaVeL [information system]

TS Top Secret

TS&AB Technical Services and Accouting Branch

TSC Technical Service Center

TSCA Toxic Substance Control Act (1976)

TSE Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy

tsp teaspoon

TSP Thrift Savings Plan; TriSodium Phosphate [Na3PO4]

TS/SCI Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information

TSWG Technical Support Working Group

TT Time-Temperature; Technology Transfer

TTY TeleTYpwriter (also, TDD)

TV Television

TVP Textured Vegetable Protein (also, VPP)

TWA Time-Weighted Average

TY Travel Year

UU UAT User Acceptance Testing

UCL Upper Control Limit (microbiological statistical chart)

UEL Upper Explosive Limit (MSDS)


UFM Unidentified Foreign Material

UK United Kingdom

UL Underwriters’ Laboratory®

ULO UnLiquidated Obligations

ULP Unfair Labor Practice

ULV Ultra Low Volume [application] (pest control)

UMCNS Uniform Meat Cut Nomenclature System (Canada)

UNKSUB UNKnown SUBstance (PHIS sample management)

UOJCA Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

UPC Universal Product Code (labeling)

UPS United Parcel Service

UR Utilization Rate

URL Uniform Resource Locator (computing)

US United States

USB Univeral Serial Bus

USC United States Code

USD United States Dollar[s]

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

USERRA Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act

USP United States Pharmacopeia [Grade]

USPS United States Postal Service

USSEC United States Soybean Export Council

USTD United States Trade Description[s]

UTC

[derived from Coordinated Universal Time and the French, Temps Universel

Coordonné, of the same meaning, both having approximately the same value

as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)]

VV V Volt

v. versus

VA Veterans Administration; Vulnerability Assessment


VB Veterinary Biologics

vCJD variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

VCR Video Cassette Recorder

VDT Visual Display Terminal

VEE Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

VEOA Veterans Education Outreach Agency; Veterans Employment Opportunity

Act

VERA Voluntary Early Retirement Authorization

VERSOP VERification Standard Operating Procedure

VGA Video Graphics Adapter

VHS Video Home System

VISTA Volunteers In Service To America

VLV Very Low Volume (establishment size)

VMD Veterinary Medical Doctor

VMO Veterinary Medical Officer

VOC Volatile Organic Compound

VoIP Voice-over Internet Protocol

VP Verification Plan

VPAT Voluntary Product Accessibility Template

VPN Virtual Private Network

VPP Vegetable Protein Product (also, TVP)

VRA Vocational Rehabilitation Administration; Veterans Readjustments Act;

Veterans Recuitment Appointment

VRP Vocational Rehabilitation Program

VS Veterinary Services (APHIS)

VTA Virtual Training Assistant

WW W Watt; Withdrawal [of Inspection] (AER report type)

W Water reactive (MSDS)

WAE When Actually Employed (part-time employment)

WAN Wide Area Network (computing)


WAOB World Agricultural Outlook Board

WAU Workforce Analysis Unit

WBS Work Breakdown Structure

WCB Workers’ Compensation Branch

WCF Working Capital Fund

WCIIDB Workers’ Compensation, Injury, and Illness DataBase

WCTS Washington Communications and Technology Services

WE Whole Egg[s]

WEB Whole Egg Blend

WEC/A Whole Egg with Citric Acid

WEE Western Equine Encephalitis

WG Wage Grade

WGI Wage Grade Increase; Within-Grade Increase

WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHO World Health Organization

WHP Work Hardening Program

WIC Women, Infants, and Children

WINTEL Warning [notice]—INTELligence [Sources or Methods Involved]

WL Wage Leader; Western Laboratory; Withholding of Labels (AER report type)

WMD Weapon of Mass Destruction; Weights and Measures Division (NIST)

.wmv windows media video (computer file extension)

WNRC Washington National Records Center

WOF Workforce Of the Future; Watch Out For [notification]

WOFSC Workforce Of the Future Steering Committee

WOPFP WithOut Postage and Fees Paid

WPFP With Postage and Fees Paid

WP Wage Printer

WPA Whistleblower Protection Act

WPPA Wholesome Poultry Products Act (1968; amendment to the PPIA)


WPVPAT WorkPlace Violence Prevention Assessment Team

WRP Workforce Recruitment Program

WRRC Western Regional Research Center

WSHO Workplace Safety and Health Official

WSPO Washington Servicing Personnel Office

WSS Web Services Staff

WT WeighT

wt weight

WTA Withholding Tax Allowance

WTMS Workforce Transition Management Staff

WUM Work Unit Meeting

WVPRB Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Branch

WVA Workplace Violence Analyst

XX .xls [Microsoft

®] Excel

™ spreadsheet (file extension)

YY Y Yolk[s]; [with railroad siding] (establishment type)

Y. Yersinia

YCBS Young Chicken Baseline Study

YG Yield Grade (red meat)

YTBS Young Turkey Baseline Study

YW Federal Pay Plan for stay-in-school students

ZZ ZDRSD Zoonotic Disease and Residue Surveillance Division

z-value temperature that is required for the thermal destruction curve to move one log

cycle

SYMBOLS

/s/ signature [of electronic mail]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thermal_destruction_curve&action=edit&redlink=1


summation (Greek upper case letter, sigma)

population mean (Greek lower case letter, mu); micro- [1/1,000,0000]

population standard deviation (Greek lower case letter, sigma)

sample mean [pronounced, x bar]

# number; pound[s]

% percent

C degree[s] Celsius/Centigrade

F degree[s] Fahrenheit

* Talmadge-Aiken (establishment type)

‘ foot

inch

+ more than

± plus or minus

≠ not equal to

less than

≤ less than or equal to

> greater than

≥ greater than or equal to

approximately equal to

square root [of “x”]

¢ cent[s]

§ section (for example, Code of Federal Regulations)

§§ sections

© Copyright [symbol]

® Registered [trademark]; also, racol, registered and authorized company logo

™ TradeMark

x2 square; squared [x × x]

y3 cubic; cubed [y × y × y]

W Water reactive (MSDS)


0/T [combined] zero-Tare [key] (weights and measures)

1 first [shift]

2 second [shift]

aw water activity

Roman Numerals Value Upper

Case Lower Case

Value Upper Case

Lower Case

Value

1 I i 11 XI xi 30 XXX

2 II ii 12 XII xii 40 XL

3 III iii 13 XIII xiii 50 L

4 IV iv 14 XIV xiv 60 LX

5 V v 15 XV xv 70 LXX

6 VI vi 16 XVI xvi 80 LXXX

7 VII vii 17 XVII xvii 90 XC

8 VIII viii 18 XVIII xviii 100 C

9 IX ix 19 XIX xix 500 D

10 X x 20 XX xx 1000 M

United States Code of Federal Regulations

Title 9, Chapter III, Animals and Animal Products

§ 123.45 subsections in descending order:

(a)

(1)

(i)

(a)

(1)

(i)

(A)

MARKS OF INSPECTION

USDA Total Plant Quality Control establishment logo

USDA National Organic Program (NOP) certification mark.

Radura—derived from radurization, a portmanteau combining "radiation"

with "durus," Latin for hard, lasting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radurization


AMS shield with code identification letters of the grader, “UF,” performing

preliminary carcass grading inspection.

AMS shield enclosing the letters “USDA” with the appropriate quality grade

designation “Prime,” “Choice,” “Select,” “Good,” “Standard,” “Commercial,”

“Utility,” “Cutter,” “Canner,” or “Cull.” “UF” are the code identification

letters of the grader performing preliminary carcass grading inspection.

AMS shield grade designation “1,” “2,” “3”, “4,” or “5” of fresh beef, lamb,

yearling mutton, and mutton carcasses. When yield graded, bull and bullock

carcasses will be identified with the class designation “Bull” and “Bullock,”

respectively. The code identification letters of the grader performing the

service will appear outside the shield.

AMS shield enclosing the letters “US” on one side and “DA” on the other,

with the appropriate Yield Grade designation number “1,” “2,” “3,” “4,” or

“5.” The code identification letters for the grader performing the service will

appear outside underneath the shield (A.A.).

AMS shield enclosing the letters “USDA” with the appropriate yield grade

designation number of “1,” “2,” “3,” “4,” or “5” between the “US” and “DA”,

with the appropriate quality grade designation of “Prime”, “Choice,” or

“Select.” The code identification letters for the grader performing the service

will appear outside underneath the shield.

AMS shield enclosing the letters “US” on one side and “DA” on the other with

the appropriate Quality Grade designation of “Prime,” “Choice,” or “Select.”

The code identification letters for the grader performing the service will

appear outside underneath the shield.

AMS official identification for the grade of barrow, gilt, and sow pork

carcasses.

AMS official identification under the regulations to show compliance of

products. “RWX” are the code identification letters of the official grader

performing the service.


AMS official identification under the regulations to show compliance of

products. “RWX” are the code identification letters of the official grader

performing the service.

Stamp identifying carcasses or cuts destined for further in-house processing

when a specification requires products that qualify for a specific grade.

AMS official identification to show quality system certification.

AMS shield-shaped ear tag enclosing the letters “USDA,” the words “Carcass

Data Service” and a serial number constitutes a form of official identification.

Other information may appear on the backside of the ear tag at the option of

the purchasers.

One device used by USDA graders is a rectangular, serially numbered, orange

tag on which a shield encloses the letters “USDA” and the words “Product

Control” constitutes a form of official identification.

AMS official identification symbol approved for use on equipment, utensils,

or descriptive or promotional materials.

FSIS egg products mark of inspection.

FSIS official mark for poultry entering the United States.

FSIS official mark applied to meat or poultry refused entry into the U.S.


FSIS poultry and rabbit products mark of inspection to be applied to labels.

FSIS exotic animal product mark of inspection applied directly to product.

FSIS exotic animal products mark of inspection to be applied to labels.

FSIS calf /goat carcasses and larger varieties of sausage and meat food

products in animal casings.

FSIS beef/hog carcasses, primal parts and cuts therefrom, beef livers, tongues,

hearts, smoked meats not in casings.

FSIS red meat products official inspection legend to be applied to labels.

FSIS horse carcass official inspection legend applied directly to product.

FSIS equine (nonhorse) carcass official inspection legend applied directly to

product.

FSIS horse products official inspection legend applied directly to product.


FSIS equine (nonhorse) products official inspection legend applied directly to

product.

FSIS official “U.S. Passed for Cooking” mark.

FSIS official “U.S. Inspected and Condemned” mark.

FSIS official meat export inspection mark.

FSIS sample seal official mark.

FSIS official mark for sealing railroad cars, etc.

FSIS inspection legend for canned, frozen, or semi-moist animal food.

FSIS inspection/grade mark for graded product packed under USDA

inspection.

FSIS inspection/grade mark used on graded product processed and packed

under USDA inspection

FSIS inspection/grade mark for product (where grade standards are not

established) processed and packed under USDA quality control service.


Underwriters’ Laboratories

Halal Food Council International

Islamic Food And Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA)

Union Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

Organized Kashruth Laboratories

Star-K Kosher Certification

KOF-K Kosher Supervision

Third party certification mark


Organic certification accredited by the USDA National Organic Program and

USDA International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Guide 65

American Humane Association’s certified “humane” mark

Third party “organic” certification mark

Third party “biodynamic” certification mark

American Grassfed Association’s “grass-fed” certification mark

Third party “organic” certified mark

Third party, EPA-endorsed certification mark

Third party “organic” certification mark


ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT

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Departmental acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, and marks of inspection. It is currently the most

comprehensive list of its kind and includes disambiguation of entries with multiple meanings.

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