The purpose of this Chapter is to provide for the establishment of official United States standards for grain, to promote the uniform application thereof by official inspection personnel, to provide for an official inspection system for grain, and to regulate the weighing and the certification of the weight of grain shipped in interstate or foreign commerce in the manner hereinafter provided; with the objectives that grain may be marketed in an orderly and timely manner and that trading in grain may be facilitated. To achieve the above purposes, this Chapter authorises the Secretary to investigate the handling, weighing, grading, and transportation of grain and to fix and establish standards of kind, class, quality, and condition as well as several other standards. "Grain" is defined as corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain, and any other food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds for which standards are established under section 76. This Chapter creates a Committee on Grain Quality within the Department of Agriculture whose Coordinator shall be responsible for (1) assembling and evaluating, in a systematic manner, concerns and problems with the quality of United States grain, expressed by foreign and domestic buyers and end-users; (2) developing and implementing a coordinated effort to inform and educate foreign buyers concerning the proper specifications of grain purchase contracts to obtain the quality of grain they desire; (3) reviewing the programs and activities of the Department of Agriculture with respect to United States grain to determine whether the activities are consistent with the provisions of this title (and other provisions of law) as such provisions relate to grain quality and grain quality competitiveness; (4) serving as the Federal Government coordinator with respect to grain quality and grain quality competitiveness.
الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية · 1916-08-11